Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner...
There was little satisfaction for Convict Sinclair in the knowledge that, by simultaneous decision of the Supreme Court, he was to have a friend in the jail with him-Manhattan's Henry Mason Day, the friend who had tried to help him in his first oil scandal trial and received a four-month sentence as a result...
Eager newsmen pressed about the prison for detailed news of Convict Sinclair's daily doings. An order was issued barring them from the jail. Washington newspapers became indignant. In the U. S. Senate, Alabama's ever-loud Heflin denounced "this truckling to a vulgar millionaire." The Sinclair privacy became an editorial issue. The order was rescinded, the Press re-entered the jail...
...Sunday, Convict Sinclair received his first caller, John Hardy, a Manhattan business associate. They sat in the pharmacy talking, smoking cigars. A guard stood at the door, to bar intruders. Mr. Hardy stayed 30 minutes beyond the regulation hour for visitors...
When a newsgatherer sent in his card to see Convict Sinclair during visiting hours, he got back a curt message: "Not at home to the press...