Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fruit Liner Pastores docked in Manhattan one day last week, ship newsmen singled out one passenger to ask one question. The passenger was Pennsylvania's Governor John S. Fisher. The question: Would he sign a certain official paper which would release from his State's Eastern Penitentiary a certain convict? Governor Fisher told them: "I'll sign it in the routine way when I get around to it." He went on to Harrisburg, unmindful of the crescendo of public interest in the release by the State of Pennsylvania of its most famed prisoner, the No. 1 underworking...
...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
...Convict No. 23,118 worked as night interne in the Leavenworth hospital, taught a prisoners' night school, edited the New-Era, prison publication. His behavior was excellent. He took no part in last year's Leavenworth mutiny (TIME...
Last week the penitentiary gates opened and convict No. 23,118 changed back to Frederick Albert Cook. Attorney General Mitchell had approved his parole. Its prime provision: Cook must hereafter write and speak nothing but the truth. The first $12,000 he makes, the U.S. will take as the fine he still owes for his oil fraud...
Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated...