Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody." The lines more or less tell the story of Rogue Yates, a relentlessly robust novel in a little-known genre-the Australian western. Author Ronan's sunburnt bloody stockman is a dwarfish near-albino of repulsive appearance and character, named Tony Yates. His father, an ex-convict, used to beat his gin-sodden mother with his wooden leg; a sister was active in a sort of open-air bordello, and Tony himself was sold to a cattle thief at twelve. At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that...
Shoot If You Must. In Kingman, Ariz., when gun-waving Convict Charles Turner burst into an Episcopal parsonage one jump ahead of a sheriff's posse, 82-year-old Miss Louise Freeland ordered him to drop the gun, took him by the arm and marched him outside to the waiting officers, explained: "I didn't want to see him shot. He probably would have bloodied up my favorite chair...
Bootleggers reap from 200% to 300% on their investment, have bombed judges' homes, killed hostile liquor-law enforcement agents, machine-gunned rivals. One ex-convict named by Mathis supplies a liquor empire in dry counties from nine state-licensed liquor stores in wet areas. In Lubbock, Texas' biggest dry city (pop. 150,000), more than 4,000 bootleggers ply a $15 million annual trade, openly advertise their wares with such slogans as "We Can Satisfy Your Every Need" (the satisfaction costs up to $15 a fifth...
...punishment and exile. The hero, a Ukrainian Cossack named Hryhory Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict train rolling across Siberia to the camp. As a counterpoint to the doomed men in the cattle cars, Author Bahriany describes the comforts of another train, also bound east, which is carrying volunteer settlers to the frontier lands on the Pacific. Among them is the NKVD major responsible for Hryhory...
...Convict: "Hurt...