Word: gaol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
...LAST MILE?a gaol break which does not come off (TIME...
...Patras, he balked, was killed. Zuta was killed two months afterward." Not in those exact words but to that effect, Prisoner Frank Bell last week spoke rapidly to a Chicago coroner's jury, made Chicago's big crime news of the week. Prisoner Bell had been in gaol since June for robbery & murder. His friend Sullivan was jailed in July for the Patras murder, which he confessed. Traum is in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. on other charges...
Further to gain favor with the authorities, Prisoner Bell next day warned the gaol-warden of a plotted escape by Prisoner William ("Blackie") Lenhardt, murderer, and two accomplices. Searchers found the bars of Lenhardt's cell sawed, a loaded automatic pistol...
...bear, fired at close range, failed to kill. The wounded beast charged him, knocked him down, cuffed and bit him until Stuyvesant beat on its nose with his gun butt. Then (the Associated Press said) "the animal, in considerable pain, ran away." Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman who went to gaol for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, was admitted with his wife to private audience before Pope Pius XI the day after they had been presented to Prime Minister Mussolini...