Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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District Attorney Foley believed that he had ample evidence to convict Bruno Hauptmann on the New York indictment of extortion. Handwriting experts positively identified the ransom notes to "Jafsie" Condon as Hauptmann's work. In Hauptmann's garage $13,750 of the ransom money had been found. In Hauptmann's home was discovered notepaper identical with that used in the ransom notes. A loose board taken from a closet in Hauptmann's apartment was found to have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives...
Murder- It would be a strange jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
...hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging...
...Administration passes a law making it possible to convict a man for selling a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread combined for the dictated price of the milk alone...
Excerpts: "Most of us know what damage the lack of a normal sex life does to either a man or a woman. What it does in the prisons isn't often brought up in polite conversation, but most people know, just the same. . . . New convicts coming into the prisons are promptly approached by veterans in these vices, and initiated into them if they will consent. . . . What this does to the penologists' attempts to make over men into normal citizens, it is easy to imagine. And what must it do to many a convict's wife...