Word: gaol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrests had been made by the Bureau, 3,828 of the prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations in July, Prohibition cases on Federal Court dockets had increased from 22,173 to 22,497. The average Prohibition violator sentenced in July received 152.6 days in gaol, his average fine was $199.59. Precisely 1,339,277 gal. of beer and 111,-672 gal. of "spirits" were confiscated; also 724 automobiles, 11 boats, 1,963 stills, 12,353 fermenters...
...Poona near the southwest coast, however, was a scene of placidity. "Peace negotiations" were entered into between St. Gandhi, Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal, Nehru in Yeroda gaol, and the "moderate" leaders?Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar. Outcome of this meeting, sanctioned by the Viceroy, was a Gandhi peace proposal whose nature was kept secret...
...thought he had fainted from what he had learned inside. A cry went up. About 75 Fairmounters and Marionites, apparently equipped for the purpose, started a two-sided, business-like assault on the gaol. They battered down door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple...
Last week Payne was taken to gaol at Stinnett, Tex., to save him from mob violence in Amarillo. There he confessed to the murder and to four previous attempts on his wife's life, asked a speedy execution...
...disastrous libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, when the Poet too loudly claimed the Peer had fouled him. The name usually coupled with Oscar Wilde's is Lord Alfred ("Bosie") Douglas, unfilial son of the unpaternal Marquess. After Wilde's sentence and imprisonment in Reading Gaol he rejoined Douglas on the Continent, but the two erstwhile boon companions soon quarreled for the last time. When Wilde died squalidly in Paris (1900), "Bosie" was far away...