Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turncoat. In Snow Hill, N.C., Virginia police who had searched more than two years for Escaped Convict Tommy Hill finally found him working as a guard at a North Carolina state prison camp...
Ponzi's biggest one-day take had topped $2,000,000 when the Boston Post finally exposed him for what he was : an ex-convict and a confidence man who had borrowed from 40,000 Peters to pay early-bird Pauls. This time the mob that stormed Ponzi's office shouted: "Kill...
...night of Nov.11, 1932, ex-Convict Roy Frank Godbey and four pals pulled off a robbery in Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...
Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...
...perfect right to hit a bill collector with a broom. Said the judge: "A woman's home is her castle, and she doesn't have to have anyone in it she doesn't want." ¶In San Francisco, Patrick James Fleming, 23, an ex-convict, discovered a trap door in the men's room leading to a false ceiling over the Bond Bar. He holed up every night before closing, emerged after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling...