Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sonny the rest of my life, and not on a motherly basis." Los Angeles Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott was impressed-"If Ellsworth gets into any more of these jams, he will be the most sought-after man in the U.S." -but unmoved: he sent Sonny Boy to jail as an incorrigible, booked Mrs. Deveny for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...
...high voltage and low taste in friends apparently mark her from the beginning as the victim of a crime of passion. When she is rubbed out, tedium sets in. The scene finally gets so crowded with suspicious-looking people that by the time the villain is led away to jail you have the feeling that far too many untrustworthy characters are still lurking about on the wrong side of the bars...
When the sheriff arrested her one night, her double-barreled reputation paid off-Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: he had scheduled a huge dinner party which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy in jail. After that, for three decades, Lucy Hicks trafficked successfully in both sin and souffle...
There reporters asked 41-year-old Michael Fulker what he thought of his new freedom. Said the man from Bordeaux Jail...