To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news:

P: To the release of scraggly, dim-witted Richard Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last year to the defendants, Natchez this year turned against them, revolted by their grotesque behavior in appearing in theatres, permitting sightseers, at 25-c- a head, to swarm through their ramshackle plantation, to which the Mississippi Central R. R. ran excursion trains. Each was released pending trial on $1,000 bail.

P: To the lynching of Negro George Armwood. 28, for raping Mrs. Mary Denston, 71. by a mob in Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away."

P: To the arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa.

P: To the indictment of Frederick Barber Campbell. Manhattan lawyer, for failure to register with the U. S. Treasury his possession of 27 bars of gold worth $200,754.34 and for failure to exchange it for paper currency in accord with President Roosevelt's executive order (TIME, Oct. 9): decision by Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey that the Government has the constitutional right to compel hoarders to report and surrender their gold. Reason : "The right of the Government to take private property of any kind when it is deemed necessary by the appropriate authority for the public good." He ruled, nevertheless, that the order to surrender gold was technically invalid because under the Emergency Banking Act it should have been signed by the Secretary of the Treasury rather than the President, gave the Government 20 days to appeal.

P: To the arrest of burly Andre Spada. notorious Corsican brigand (TIME. June 12): decision by authorities to hospitalize him for mental examination after he spent two weeks knitting socks, explained that it helps him communicate with God.

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