Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate subcommittee was performing its legal duty in seeking information on Communist infiltration, the witness had no right to withhold such information or to invoke the First Amendment. Found guilty on 52 out of 58 counts, Mary Knowles now faces a maximum possible sentence of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...
...policy. The next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint of $271. An innocent victim of mistaken identity, Balestrero was booked, fingerprinted, spent a night in jail, had to face suspicion and publicity, raise $5,000 bond, and defend himself as justice took its ponderous course. His wife cracked under the strain, and was placed in an institution. Even so, Balestrero was lucky. Between a mistrial and preparations for retrial, the real thief was caught, and confessed...
Home Flown. In Milwaukee, caught robbing a beer depot because he wanted to give his family "a nice Christmas" after cops had sought him for 16 months, Jail Escapee Richard Heinz admitted that he hid out for the entire time in his wife's apartment, left only in the late evening for burglary forays, avoided alerting neighbors by ducking windows, teaching his three children to call him "Cowboy" instead of daddy, hid in a closet whenever cops, sheriff's deputies or the FBI searched the place...
...free U.S. prisoners held by the Chinese. Newsmen also brush aside the State Department's argument that reporters in China might be held as hostages. They are willing to waive any potential claim against the U.S. Government-as Bill Worthy did-in the event that the Communists jail them...