Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Case 2. A convict named Kalinowski had stabbed and killed the headkeeper of Auburn Prison. Convict Kalinowski was sentenced to death. Defense counsel was arguing for clemency...
Promoted. Thomas P. Tunney, brother of heavyweight boxing champion James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney* from third grade to second grade detective in the New York City Police Department, from a salary of $2,500 to $2,750; because he had aided in the capture of a onetime convict who was wanted for a series of bold hold ups in Los Angeles...
Some 800 Negroes lined up at a coal mine office in Flattop, Ala., last week, to turn in their lamps and shovels. They were the last convicts in the U. S. whose labor had been sold by the State to private interests. Work for the State on convict farms and highways awaited them...
Alabama was the last of the States to abolish the leasing of convict labor. Agitation for the reform began in 1915 but progressed slowly in the State whose senior Senator is James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. In 1923 the Alabama Legislature passed the reform law. Not until last year and this, under Governor Bibb Graves. were the State's penal facilities built up to accommodate all the State's prisoners...
...carnal strongmen. With luck bits of wood could be stolen and carved into salable boxes, or penny errands might be run for the slave-drivers, and bit by tarnished bit the price of attempt at freedom could be bought. Five hundred francs would bribe a bushman to paddle one convict across to the jungle, and buy a few days' scanty provisions. Michel achieved the jungle, staggered and bruised his way through to Paramaribo, only to be arrested as he tried to board a Dutch freighter, and shipped summarily back to an extra twist of the screw...