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Show Apropos of the numerous influential malefactors malefac-tors whose prison terms are either annulled or cut down to nearly nothing. Mayor Brand Whit-lock Whit-lock of Toledo said a short while ago: "It is a good thing for the public to let these men out so soon. "I was sympathizing one afternoon with a poor woman whose husband had just been sent to jail. She was weeping bitterly, and I said to her: " 'Now, don't take it so hard. Two years is a long sentence, I know; but he may not have to serve it all. Convicts who behave themselves oftentimes get out months before their appointed time.' "That's just it," she replied, stiU sobbing. 'Henry can be an angel when ho Ukes.' " New York Globe. |