Word: jailings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Form. In London, a judge gave George Edward Croxford a month in jail for biting the nose of Arthur McCartney, added sternly that such behavior was "not British...
...county jail at Lawton, Okla., a man charged with embezzlement passed the time by hacking away his wooden leg with a razor. To questioners, he retorted shortly: "It's mine...
...Confessing that she beat her sick seven-month-old son to death because she "couldn't stand his crying," pudgy Georgette Brucks, 21, was sentenced to from one to ten years in jail. She offered to submit to sterilization if granted probation. Los Angeles' Judge Thomas Ambrose so ordered it. Georgette also agreed to have one surviving child, and one yet unborn, put up for adoption...
...though they may never have engaged in active opposition. "Class enemies," on the other hand, may come from a long line of workers or peasants. They include all the known antiCommunists, regardless of origin. Their eventual destination, when Rakosi's overworked policemen get around to them, is the jail, the concentration camp, or the crematory...
...nearly 3½years thereafter, Nansen descended the scale of German prisons. From the county jail, he was taken to the Gestapo prison in Oslo, thence to Grini concentration camp near by, and finally to sinister Sachsenhausen in Germany, where he existed for a year and a half. It was May 1945 before he got back to his wife and their four children again...