Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
Fifty-six prisoners in the Scioto County jail, Portsmouth, Ohio, were last week guests at a farewell party given by Fellow-Convict...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...
...Senate Chamber of Indiana one day last week, after Lieut. Governor Van Orman had informed the portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
...year. Law-abiding restaurant-keepers, must now employ detective- waiters to search customers for hip-flasks and hidden bottles before they serve them with cracked ice or ginger ale. Prohibition agents need no longer search and buy; they may sit at tables and sniff; a good smell will convict. -The court reached its decision on the intorpretation of one word of the law. Section 21 of the Volstead Act states: "Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure or place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, kept or bartered in violation of this title, and all intoxicating liquor and property kept...