Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Montgomery, as the escaped convict, Porter, boards a Los Angeles bound bus, a Greyhound bus, (note the advertising element that creeps into Hollywoodiana) and he immediately falls for the babe at his side. Letty is the girl's name, and she lets him know that she is avoiding Legs, a New York gangster. Legs glares at the couple, and Withington (Ted Healy) is trying to persuade a prim woman to take a drink, and Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped...
...will be hard to convict criminals for first degree murder in future years, because of the mishandling of the Millen case," said Samuel B. Warner '12, professor of Penal Legislation and Administration, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "The erroneous conviction of the two taxi drivers for the killing will influence all murder trials for the next decade. The attorney for the defense will stand before the jury and say, 'Gentlemen, I hope the real culprit confesses before you convict this innocent man of murder.' Immediately the jury will think of the grave mistake in the Millen case...
...foggy morning last week 17 convicts and two guards trudged out to a timber patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared...
...Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
...Chicago today is a cleaner town than New York," commented Frank J. Loesch, noted Chicago lawyer, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon. Mr. Loesch reviewed his fight to convict Chicago gangsters in a speech he delivered last night in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...