Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Omaha's police were mustered out for night duty, 500 strong. They patrolled the streets in squads. Twenty dusky suspects were taken into custody, but none had a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling thought she recognized her attacker in Jake Bird, a 24-year-old ex-convict, though Bird was black and Mrs. Stribling had described the hatcheteer as copper-colored. Bird was hustled to the State penitentiary for safekeeping...
...George Remus of Cincinnati, onetime bootlegger, ex-convict, wife-slayer: "I'm sure Mr. Hoover will be elected. I am for him, of course...
Stormed Mr. Justice Humphreys, in his charge to the jury: "Perjury and foul perjury has been committed in this court. . . . Your duty is to say whether you are satisfied whether the perjury is on the side of these two constables. If so you ought to convict them. . . . I am not referring to the fact that the wretched girl is either a prostitute or something near it. That is beside the point...
...Fairplay, Col., Anna Deeler, 58, decided that her 34-year-old son, Harry Deeler, a horse-thief and released convict, was crazy. Afraid that he would be taken away to an asylum, she coaxed him into a dark room at the back of her shanty where she chained him to a post. That was eleven years ago. Last week policemen found Harry Deeler crouching in the dark room; they wrapped him in a blanket and took him away to an asylum...
...Ohio primary (see below) was the second defeat in a year for Charles P. Taft II, stalwart, cheerful, encyclopedic son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. As the youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten for his own office, last week...