Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi hangings are generally held at noon but to avoid a mob scene ten trucks loaded with guardsmen left Jackson before midnight to carry the three prisoners back to Hernando and to death. At 4:30 in the morning the three Negroes stood in the Hernando jail under garish electric lights, praying aloud while the gallows was made ready. Father Collins, a favored spectator, stood beside Sheriff Roscoe Lauderdale. In the hall below the trap through which the bodies would fall were about 150 Hernandoans who did not mind getting up early for such an occasion. As the noose...
...slight, sandy-haired man who gets ideas for some editorials while riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...
Still determined to find out who "One Who Believes in Honest Government" was, the Legislature decided to have Editor Armentrout tried before the Lobbying Committee on a charge of contempt. If convicted, he can be sentenced by the State Legislature to a maximum of six months in jail, fined...
...public recantation or expulsion from his school, committed suicide. Gustav, who had signed a manifesto against the Nazis, was persuaded to flee the country just before a raiding party came to ''search" his house. Martin was arrested in the middle of the night, taken to jail and beaten. Edgar was expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated by a Jew." Gustav was foolish enough to go back to Germany where he was arrested, clapped...
...against a defense witness by hanging on him the old joke about getting syphilis in a toilet; the defense successfully counters by showing that a prosecution witness once got drunk, took a horse into a church. The 15 defendants were pronounced guilty; Ring leader Marvin got 25 years in jail. Harry Baumann, caught trying to set fire to his father's mill, sought a final sensation by shooting himself. Silly Mrs. Thayer died of overexerting her alcoholic heart. Her husband was proud the strike was broken, wanted to clean all the foreigners out of Fullerton. Marjorie at last...