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Both pleaded not guilty, said the $75,000 was given them for documents taken from the Julian files. Both were convicted and await sentence.* If sent to San Quentin, Reporter Lavine may meet convict (formerly) District Attorney Asa Keyes, whom he helped send there as a bribe-taker in the Julian prosecutions (TIME, March 24). If permitted to visit the women's quarters, he may even pay his respects to Hammer Murderess Clara Phillips...
...Moran: "Sir, I am the Federal Census taker and have come to enumerate the occupants of this house...
...Angeles Asa Keyes (pronounced Kize; no kin to New Hampshire's Senator Keyes in col. 1) sent 4,030 men and women to California prisons for every variety of crime. Last week he joined this criminal company himself, entered San Quentin Prison as a convicted bribe-taker, a betrayer of public trust...
...conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile robe, his black New Mexican sombrero in his lap. His eyes were stunned, blankly staring at the verdict. Down his white, sunken cheek rolled a teardrop, to be kissed away by his sobbing wife. Other women present moaned and groaned hysterically. Robust cowpunchers and ranchers bent their heads in sorrow...
...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...