Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, emerged Convict No. 2,715 to become again Owen Cosby Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. His sentence of one year, for sponsoring a misleading stock prospectus, had begun last November, was shortened for good behavior. The towering baron?he is 6 ft. 7 in. long but last week looked bowed and broken? was met by Lady Kylsant who escorted him by motor first to their May fair home, thence to their Welsh estate at Coomb Llangain, Carmarthen, where loyal villagers had erected a laurel arch. Some 40 villagers hooked ropes to His Lord-ship...
...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons, mentally recapitulates his conviction. Preston Foster is the tough convict who leads the move by which the convicts capture the guards, barricade themselves inside the deathhouse. Bargaining for their liberty they execute the guards one by one. Meanwhile, radio policemen outside are chasing a set of gangsters...
...Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road as "a Capone attraction" with Col. Miller as manager. . . . In Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Convict Capone has organized his own baseball team, is captain and first baseman...
...them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word that seven had been killed near Panama's Chagres River. He has hired a convict to take him to the spot where the last one was slain...