Word: convict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month, a convict, just released from the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, told a Dallas cop the hottest rumor from the prison grapevine: a certain party was offering $50,000 for the assassination of a husky, dark-eyed Dallas gambler named Herbert Noble. The stoolie confided: "They say that this man will buy you a new suit of clothes, give you some running money, a gun or dynamite if you want it, and pay you off when...
Accused of at least 165 burglaries in Harvard halls and surrounding parts of Cambridge, James McLeod, 28, a former convict, was returned from New York to the East Cambridge jail this week...
Knocking Fortune. In Coyote, N. Mex., Escaped Convict Leslie Oatis rapped on a door to ask for a drink of water, found he had chosen the home of the deputy sheriff who was searching...
Vocational Training. In Virginia's state penitentiary, Warden Frank Smyth, who had been encouraging inmates to study practical subjects, rejected as too practical one convict's request for a course in key-making...
...decades later Dr. Stanley finally got the up-to-date, four-story hospital San Quentin boasts today. Over the years he had also brought a new standard of medical care to the convicts. Stanley began using spinal anesthesia (which he could administer unaided) long before most doctors, because the prison anesthetist (a convict) was a drunkard who habitually drank up all the medical alcohol in the surgery...