Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purchasing Agent. Few knew this sly-eyed World War I gunner well. One wretched little man who did was Walter Kadow, who stole the funds of a gang of political assassins in the '205. Bormann served a year in jail for his part in Kadow's murder...
...Tallahassee, Florida's Governor Millard Caldwell had his own say about a similar problem. Three months ago a Negro named Jesse James Payne, under indictment for attempted rape of a five-year-old girl, had been taken from an unguarded jail and shot to death by a mob. Asked whether he considered this a lynching, Governor Caldwell replied that...
...lovable Yankee Lawyer Ephraim Tutt: after long illness; in Manhattan. Said Author Train ruefully: "As between Tutt and myself, Tutt will be remembered as the real person and I as the fictional character." Died. Moman Pruiett, 73, shaggy-browed Oklahoma criminal lawyer: of pneumonia; in Oklahoma City. Sent to jail for robbery at 18, he vowed "I'll open the doors of your damned prisons!" Later he became so expert at bringing tears to backwoods jurors' eyes (343 murder cases, 303 acquittals, no executions) that he was considered a menace to the community...
...Gourmet. In Hattiesburg, Miss., Clayton E. Stewart missed "those good home-cooked meals," applied for and won readmission to the county jail...
Voice of Confusion. The ragbaggy old darling of the U.S.'s expatriate intelligentsia did not seem to care very much. Lolling in the infirmary of the D.C. jail, he denied that he had ever talked treason: "I was only trying to tell the people of Europe and America how they could avoid war by learning the facts about money." He spoke ruefully: "It's all very well to die for an idea, but to die for an idea that you can't remember. . . ." He struck a conspiratorial tone: "I took Mussolini an economic theory that would have...