Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case. Last week in the Mirror city room, Crime Reporter Hughes got a phone call from a business acquaintance; on the long-distance line from Baltimore was an ex-convict named Johnny Johnson, 34, out on parole after nine years in Alcatraz for a series of bank robberies...
Counsel for the Defense. In Oklahoma City, on trial for forgery, ex-Convict Ralph Acuff decided to act as his own lawyer, put himself on the witness stand, asked questions and answered them, but failed to convince the jury, which deliberated for 45 minutes, found him guilty as charged...
...coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case. Last week in the Mirror city room, Crime Reporter Hughes got a phone call from a business acquaintance; on the long-distance line from Baltimore was an ex-convict named Johnny Johnson, 34, out on parole after nine years in Alcatraz for a series of bank robberies...
...Nevada City, 140 miles from San Francisco, as a suspect in the murder of Edmund Hansen, one of several recent killings in the past two years around the gold mines of the Mother Lode country in the Sierras. The police suspected a gang of hoodlums led by an ex-convict named Jack Santo, now on trial in Los Angeles for another murder. Boles, who had often been seen with members of the Santo gang, denied knowing anything about the Hansen murder, but repeatedly asked to see Chronicle Reporter Freeman. Finally the police agreed...
...Money or influence might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself the job of prison executioner, only to grow absentminded, kill another convict in a tiff and end up on his own guillotine -after being good enough to set the blade himself...