Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
...obscure nurse named Madeleine Poirier slaved for years to get Life Convict Ullmo pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
...first issue of Western Trails Subscriber-Convict Capone may read "Maverick Law," "Double-Barreled Decoy," "Branded with Lead," "Trigger Tempest." He may correspond and exchange cowboy songs with Miss Billie Arnette of Troy, Ohio, who is 5 ft. 7 in. with light brown wavy hair and grey eyes and belongs to the "Pen Pards" of Western Trails. By answering advertisements he may learn to play the guitar in ten minutes, break himself of the tobacco habit, sell tear-gas pencils to his friends, discover how to have a baby, learn to be a Secret Service...
...seemed that he was the centre of the nation's interest. Yet in the newspapers of that day and the next the President and his speech were unceremoniously jostled to one side on the front page by dispatches from a small New Jersey town where a German ex-convict was on trial for the murder of the son of a popular aviator...
Last week in the little old court house at Flemington, N. J., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sat in the same row, four places away from Bruno Richard Hauptmann when that stolid German ex-convict went on trial for killing the flyer's first-born son and namesake. At the conclusion of the first week of a life & death contest it could not be said that honors between prosecution and defense were even, for the prosecution had produced a half-dozen damaging surprises and the defense had not had its innings. But in the matter of the four women...