Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a dozen other hard cons in a fast grab of two guards, armed with .30-cal. rifles. Young Smart coldly shot Deputy Warden Theodore Rothe dead. Other ringleaders captured Warden Powell, used the telephone to lure in other staffmen, slashed one guard who resisted, locked up five stoolpigeon convicts, whipped up some 30 other inmates (total: 435) and armed them with knives and meat axes. At nightfall the warden talked one convict into helping him escape, quickly called for an attack by National Guardsmen...
...Alfonse Bartkus, ex-convict, charged with robbing a federally insured Cicero savings and loan association in 1953, was found "not guilty'' in federal court, found guilty three weeks later in state court, sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal...
After taking Holy Week off, Captain Herman Marks, 37, an ex-convict from Milwaukee who fought with Fidel Castro's rebels, got back on the job one night last week. Consulting his written orders, he marched with an armed guard to the death row of Havana's gloomy Cabana Fortress, brought out three former policemen, all convicted in military courts on charges of murder. A short ride in a bus and a jeep brought Marks, the guards, a priest and the prisoners to within 200 feet of an old moat, 20 feet deep and surrounded on three sides...
Commuter. In Portland, England, Escaped Convict Edmund G. Downton gave himself away when he asked a station attendant at what hour the next train might be leaving for Weymouth, learned that the last one had left six years...
...Most famed of convict journalists was the old New York Evening World's talented, sadistic City Editor Charles E. Chapin, sent to Sing Sing in 1919 for the murder of his wife. As editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin, Chapin drove his convict staffers as hard as he had the worldmen, ended up tending the prison flower garden after authorities, unappreciative of Chapin's aggressive editing, suspended publication...