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Early in the contact Mrs. Hankins with both hands In the hair of Mrs. Scott, was urged by her husband: “Take off your coat and hat, Mn, and then you can beat hell out of her.” Ma Hankins held onto the hair with one hand while she wriggled out of one coat sleeve, changing hands in the hair while she got out of the other, Pa Hankins urging her to hit her victim harder. When she tired she asked him to hit her, but he said he didn’t dare to. A twelve year old son of the Hankins family obliged with a few blows. Mrs. Scott finally got her handa in Mrs. Hankins' hair, and Hankins dislocated her thumb getting them loose. Several neighbors who were witnesses refused to intervene. The supreme court says that under the circumstances the plaintiff was entitled to every cent the jury gave her.The defense claimed that the court limited their lawyer in his remarks, but the supreme court says ‘the trial judge was right when he refused to allow him to characterize the plaintiff “as exclusively belonging to or Inspired by the ruler of the legion of eternal punishment.”tory to date in the recently inaugurated city-wide drive againstcrime.Sammons was found guilty in Judge Edgar Jones' court at 11 p. m. Monday by a jury which had been out six hours and which had listened for five days to the state’s first attempt to convict a “public enemy” under the strict vagrancylaw of 1874.Altho Sammons faces a mixi-mum penalty of only six months in the county jail on this charge, the verdict was considered a major victory for Judge Lyle and other officials who recently announced they intended to keep “public enemies in court so much “they won t have time to get into any mischief.”With the Sammons case as a precedent, Lyle and others believed they could carry on successfully their drive against gangsters by continually harassing’’ them with charges of violating the oldlaw.BUYS WATER T EQUIPMENTSAMMONSCONVICTEDytnIICHICAGO —(UP)—The conviction of James “Fur” Sammons, notorious gangster, on charges of vagrancy was considered Tuesday by Judge John H. Lyle and other leaders as the most important vic-WASHINGTON— (UP)—P u r-chase of $3,750,000 worth of new equipment to be used by the Inland Waterways corporation for freight transportation on the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers was authorized Tuesday by Secretary of War Hurley.
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Lincoln Evening State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Tue, Nov 18, 1930
Page 6
Full Page
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Lake C.
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