Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nitro last week, "a gang of us were knocking out windows in the Nazarene Church. Lew was half a block behind us, standing in a creek, and hitting them as regularly as any of us. The police-nabbed us boys up close to the church, put us in jail for a scare, but they never had any idea Lew was around. He escaped just because he could throw farther than the rest of us." Lew traded rocks for a baseball in order to get a job at the local American Viscose plant, whose factory team needed a pitcher. He improved...
Free Enterprise. In Baltimore, after James Hipsley. 69, told a judge that he had no job-"I live off the city"-and the judge asked "How do you do that?" as he handed out a three-month jail term for vagrancy. Hipsley replied with conviction: "That...
Because criminal clients are not generally free to visit the office, the student Defenders send a representative each day to the Charles Street jail and another to the East Cambridge jail. They interview prospective clients for the Boston Voluntary Defenders, and send reports to the office of that association...
While most of the jail visits turn up such routine cases as breaking and entering, assault and battery, and larceny, occasionally the student counsel encounters something as dramatic as murder...
...year ago last May, at the request of the Boston bureau, a student interviewed an indigent at the Charles Street jail accused of second-degree murder. The prisoner claimed he had acted in self-defense...