Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus last week did Jesse Harding Pomeroy, long ago killer of little children, get his first view of a modern world. He was being transferred to the State Farm at Bridgewater. Fifty-three continuous years in jail, 41 of them in solitary confinement, Convict Pomeroy has served a longer life term than any other living U. S. prisoner...
...friend in Colorado has just sent me a clipping from your excellent magazine of June 10, in which you quote me as asserting I had been jailed in Boston. I never said such a thing because the only place I ever was in jail was Cork, Ireland, where I was erroneously accused of having planned the battle of Kenmare, in which two tree Maters lost their lives...
...craftsmanship of the time hardly more sketchy and grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself in bed when her dog, startled by a flash of lightning, begins to bark...
Oklahoma officers arrested Thomason's "friends," lodged them in jail without bail on a charge of murder. Thomason himself "disappeared" for a day or so, only to give himself up, to explain that he had been "across the road" when the fatal shooting took place and knew nothing about...
Birthday. Harry Ford Sinclair, 53, oil tycoon; in the District jail, Washington...