To an apartment on Chicago's towering Lake Shore Drive last fortnight went a doctor, two highway policemen and Chief Deputy Edward Scholler to carry a sick, 67-year-old man off to jail. Clutching at his sheets and shaking with palsy, Frank J. Link sobbed and wheedled: "I won't go. I'll never leave this bed. The idea of trying to move me on the coldest day of the year." But he was bundled into an ambulance, taken to be fingerprinted at the Cook County jail, whisked off to the infirmary of Stateville penitentiary 35...
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