Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visiting a sit-down at Frank & Seder's department store one night, Governor Murphy recognized one of the sitters as a "man whom, when the Governor was judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court, he had sentenced to prison for forgery. Investigation disclosed that the ex-convict and ten of his companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action as a "form of banditry...
Another case was that of a swindler, Neil, who succeded in getting his jailer to have a few drinks while Neil was being taken east, got him then to go to a burlesque show, after which the evening wound up by Neil putting the warden to bed. The convict was next heard of when he posed as a movie actor and made a personal appearance in New Orleans...
...Coiba Island, Panama, penitentiary guards for the second time caught Convict Herman Kahn counterfeiting U. S. $1 and $10 bills in his cell...
...farm needs. They tend horses, cows, pigs and poultry, operate a slaughter house and a cannery, make uniforms to wear at the farm, clothes to wear when they go home. Last week, with the help of 447 prisoners transferred from the flooded reformatory at Frankfort, Lexington's convict-patients were enlarging their athletic field for baseball and horseshoe pitching. They have a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a band. Dr. Kolb expects to develop a concert series soon. In the Lexington farm's library, magazines and newspapers are uncensored. Patients eat from chinaware, .instead of prison tinware, and have...
Dewey's further racket strokes had been less spectacular and conclusive. He had kept his trial record perfect: 52 indictments, 52 convictions. Proceeding with extreme secrecy and caution, refusing to strike until he felt sure he had enough evidence to convict, he had made public beginnings against rackets in the trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches...