Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doings that no one, not even the reader, can guess who he is. Dangerous doings centre around a London import and export concern; there is jolly old Frank Sutton, who runs this company; his gen eral manager is a surly individual, Captain John Leslie, known to be an ex-convict, to whom Sutton in his generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into everyone's business. Frank Sutton's secretary, who seems to know him very well, is a hardened specimen ; but Beryl Stedman...
Married. Eugene Dieudonne, recently pardoned life-term convict who escaped from Devil's Island; to his former wife who divorced him 16 years ago, at his own command, when he was first sentenced; in Paris...
...people who like to argue subtle questions, an event last week at Lima, Ohio, furnished ideal debate. The ques-tions suggested were: Can a madman be heroic? Can a hero be mad? The event was this: George Remus, one-time Illinois lawyer, then millionaire Ohio bootlegger, then convict, then insensate wife-murderer, who was judged guiltless but mentally insecure in Cincinnati (TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately...
Prodding Gorhanson afresh, the convicts marched him to another door, opening from the rear of the cellhouse to the prison ballfield. They captured Guard Walter Neil on the way. At the ballyard door, Guard Neil was sent out first, then Guard Gorhanson. Before the convicts could follow, Guard Neil flung his weight against the door. Tony Brown, San Francisco thug, the convict with the "roscoe" (pistol), tried to shoot Neil's foot out of the way, but the lock clicked. The cursing convicts retired to secure the rest of their guards as hostages and hold a council...
...lined up their charges and took the roll. Six haggard men-Tony Brown and two burglars, a murderer, a forger, a robber-went to dark cells to await trial for murder. Grilling began to discover who else had carried the score or more weapons collected, who had smuggled in Convict Brown's gun and a hatful of ammunition. Governor Young returned to Sacramento and Folsom Prison to bitter routine...