Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the first week Judge Jacob Gitelman sat on Rochester, N. Y.'s City Court bench in 1934, he laid down the rule that every drunken driver was going to jail. Because one truck driver pleaded that a straight jail sentence would cost him his job, thereby taking away support from a wife and six children, Judge Gitelman sentenced the offender to spend six Sundays in the Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove...
Last week in Albany the Governor signed the new bill. Next day in Rochester City Court a radio repairman named Maurice Thomas, 33, pleaded guilty to intoxication after his car smashed into a bus. Said Judge Gitelman as he sentenced him to spend three week ends in jail: "This law is to be used only when the court feels a straight sentence endangers a man's job. His family does not suffer, he is only deprived of his valued leisure time." Repairman Thomas' jail week ends will run from sundown Saturday until sundown Sunday...
...Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was "a virtual maniac...
LIFE STORY-Mark Benney-Random House ($2.50). Autobiography of a London harlot's son who spent half his youth in jail, the rest of it learning night life and the underworld; the whole made horrible by being written in consciously intellectual style...
...roadhouse, from the proceeds of which he hopes to keep young Miss Fellows out of an orphanage. Madge Evans, the only one who emerges from the picture without loss of reputation, is the feminine gendarme who is ordered to put the little girl into the young people's jail. The roadhouse folds up, the orphanage refuses the Fellows menace, and Crosby falls in to Park lake in New York. So it all ends happily...