Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm, arrested him. The Canadian Government had at long last discovered that the Gypsum Queen was not torpedoed but had foundered in heavy seas. It charged Captain Hatfield with larceny and obtaining money under false pretenses, asked for his extradition. For more than two years Hatfield was held in jail at Manchester while he fought extradition...
...robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...
...association that gives him ample opportunity to keep up his target practice. Fred tells Rose and Rose tells the police. By this time, Jimmy's slightly Freudian affinity for guns has been so thoroughly established that it is no great surprise when he shoots his way out of jail to get back to Rose; nor when, finding Rose and Fred together, he conquers his cowardice long enough to face the police without benefit of firearms...
Lord Bellomont wrote Kidd two weasel letters to lure him ashore, then clapped him in jail, sent him to London. At his trial Kidd was not allowed counsel. As evidence that the prizes he had taken were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had been taken from him and he could not produce them in court. Their evidence would not have affected the verdict, thinks Author Wilkins. The British Admiralty was determined to make an example of him. Reason: India's Great Mogul, tired of English pirates, had threatened to drive...
...keeper of Philadelphia's Walnut Street Jail was scandalized, sullenly consented to a religious service for his charges only because the sheriff commanded him to in writing. When Bishop William White and Dr. William Rogers arrived at the jail, they found a number of convicts huddled before an improvised pulpit, beside which stood a formidable cannon whose gunner had lighted a taper, ready to fire at the slightest sign of trouble...