Word: convictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later...
...pieced together, proved to be a letter describing items of secret military information obviously delivered to Colonel Schwarzoppen by some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment off the coast of French Guiana...
...Then the jury filed out, returned, announced its decisions: the gallows for Charles Birger; life imprisonment for Art Newman, Ray Hyland. Failure of the defendants to testify resulted from the fact that Messrs. Birger and Newman had so little confidence in each other that they expected Birger testimony to convict Newman and Newman testimony to convict Birger. Mr. Hyland, a subordinate to the other defendants, accepted their policy of silence. Thus out fell thieves and honest men prospered. The State's case rested chiefly upon the evidence of Harry Thomasson, who confessed that he and his brother had killed...
Captain Salvation (Lars Hanson). New England of 1840 had small sympathy for erring women. When one of them (Pauline Starke) is shipwrecked on their rock-bound coast, the rock-ribbed natives cast her out. Only the young minister (Lars Hanson) stands by her. Together they take refuge on a convict ship, where after ghoulish adventures with the villain captain (Ernest Torrence), they come upon placid seas of matrimony...
...sentenced to jail for a political offense--libel. But M. Daudet was not arrested such methods are not used in France, especially not with political defendants. Any such action the police wisely aver would serve no good cause, for it would merely make a martyr out of the convict, and political martyrs talk louder and are listened too more eagerly than ordinary politicians...