GRIME: Insull Out

CRIME

For lack of bail Samuel Insull spent only three of last week's seven days as a prisoner of the People. Those three days were passed in the hospital ward of the Cook County jail where the old man gradually recuperated from the fatigue of his involuntary journey back to Chicago from Istanbul (TIME, May 14).

Wearing a wine-colored dressing gown and seated in the wheel chair used by Murderess Alice Lindsay Wynekoop. he was jocular about his newly trimmed hair and mustache:

"My last haircut was more than a month ago at the expense...

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