Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcatraz Penitentiary on a grim, grey rock in San Francisco Bay was considered escape proof till December 1937. Then two convicts got down to the water, vanished into what may or may not have been their grave in the treacherous currents of the bay. Then authority were startled. They were more startled last week...
...Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone paid to the U. S. $37,692.29 on his bill of $50,000 in fines and $7,692.29 court costs for the offense of income tax evasion, for which he has served six years, eight months of a ten-year sentence, since 1934 in rock-grim Alcatraz...
...former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from Alcatraz to the Federal correctional prison on Terminal Island, off San Pedro, Calif. There he will be safer from fellow-prisoners' attempts to kill him, and will be treated for paresis, which makes him periodically violent. By good behavior and payment of his $20,000 balance due, he can leave Terminal Island November 19, unless paresis makes it advisable to lock him up for life...
...Burns & Allen, Comedian Gracie Allen gives her radio listeners many a rib-tickling account of her mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...
...Chicago, District Attorney William J. Campbell reported that Al Capone, due to be released from Alcatraz Island Penitentiary next month, was suffering from paresis, was out of his head one week in four. Meanwhile Convict Capone was presented with a bill for $57,692.29 from the U. S. Government. The bill was for: 1) a $50,000 fine, 2) $7,692.29 court costs of his income-tax evasion case...