Word: felonizing
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Died. Mrs. Charles W. Morse, divorced wife of Pullman Conductor Charles F. Dodge, for 25 years the extraordinarily loyal wife of Charles W. Morse, 70, paralyzed financier, pardoned felon...
...last felon shambled from view, the warden sat down heavily, reflected he was growing old, gazed vague-eyed at a message handed to him by his deputy. In dirty pencil it read that they had barricaded themselves in the mine, that they held the 13 unarmed guards as hostages, that they would live on mule meat, that they would surrender only on the following conditions...
...Felon ; fraud ; frozen snake ; gambler ; henchman of a notorious character ; humbug ; hypocrite ; impending insanity ; impostor...
People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...
Herbert S. Hadley was born 51 years ago in Olathe, Kansas. Both grandfathers were ministers. Northwestern University (near Chicago) educated him. He began the practice of law in Kansas City, Mo., where, later, as prosecuting attorney, he sent 220 people to felon's row in two years (a record). In his early thirties he became a national figure by reason of his assaults on oil, railroad, lumber and harvester trusts, and on St. Louis gamblers. Then, Governor of Missouri...