Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...
...years, Convict Buchalter had become politically significant. A minor desperado had grown into the first tangible issue between potential 1944 Presidential Candidates Tom Dewey and Franklin Roosevelt...
...John Costello and Thomas J. Caulfield, who have also given skin to burned children. The bank now has 50 blood-typed, physically fit convict members...
...Convict Water C. Huff, 21, serving a year for reckless driving, testified: "I came here with two other boys and after Captain Clay took off my handcuffs ... he busted me in the mouth with his fist and my teeth are loose now. Big Jim kicked us and put two picks on us. Captain Clay . . . then took us back to the little house in front of the pigpen and beat me up. He made me bend over the bed and he let loose. ... I was so sore I had to lay on my stomach. . . . The beating was on Sunday...
...convict had mailed ten books to his brother & sister...