Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two Negroes in the city jail at Mount Pleasant, Tenn., and there was a mob outside. That was enough to set the news wires chattering. Out came the railroad type and the exciting radio bulletins. Soon the story began to trickle...
...robbed. The police chief of Mount Pleasant said he had got there just in time, or the white man would have been killed. The Negroes had been kicked and pummeled by an angry group of vengeful whites, had been saved from immediate lynching by being hustled off to jail. But a menacing mob was forming outside, and everybody knew what that meant...
...small gymnasium of the jail (its floor dusty, its walls dirty grey), three black gallows had been erected with more attention to numerology than to efficiency. The platforms were eight feet apart, stood eight feet above the ground, measured eight feet square. From each platform rose two heavy beams, supporting a heavy crosspiece with a hook for the rope in the middle. An inconspicuous lever served to open the traps. The space beneath the traps was hidden by curtains. 1:11 a.m. Two white-helmeted guards led Joachim von Ribbentrop from his cell down the corridor and across the courtyard...
...Objective Reached. In Lancaster, Pa., Samuel Smith, faced with jail for nonsupport, held up six places to get money, landed in jail...
Four of the best performers in Hollywood move smartly through an interesting if slightly muddled psychological story in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," a movie which should satisfy the lust for evil in all but the morbidly insatiate. The characters are all either just out of jail or on the verge of getting in with the exception of a district attorney, and he commits murder and suicide at the end to make the criminality virtually unanimous...