Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago. Brooklyn police picked up a drunk who gave his name as Tom Jensen. He said he was a Danish seaman. While he was serving his ten days in jail, his fingerprints were sent to the Department of Justice's division of criminal identification in Washington. When he was let out, he was promptly clapped back in again, at the request of the Federal Government, as a fugitive from justice...
...other strangers from disturbing the Dionnes. Dr. Dafoe sent the older five Dionne children, two of whom had developed colds, to live with friends. And Papa Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...
...stumps out of his house and into a Sinn Fein ambush which enables Tennant to make a handsome gesture. He forges an order for the release of Conlan, obtains the release of Captain Kerr in exchange, lights a cigaret as he gets into a lorry to go to jail for three years...
...Defense, the defense is badly in need of funds. The sentences have been appealed, and a new drive for funds is necessary. Contributions will be gratefully received, and may be addressed to the undersigned. Every dollar sent us will not only help prevent the railroading of the defendants to jail, but will also be a direct blow at Fascism...
What does seem indefensible is the fact that several of the prisoners were beaten inside the police station. Certainly any citizen of this country is entitled to personal safety when he falls in the clutches of the law. This clever strategy inside the jail unquestionably warrants a punishment for everyone concerned in its perpetration. But this isn't the only thing which cannot be justified as an emergency measure: there are those six months sentences and fines which earry safety to almost preposterous lengths...