Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Government which moved in on them at last, and sent Weiss, Shushan, Smith and Caldwell to jail. The way was open to reform. Sam Jones, an earnest attorney, routed the heirs of Huey Long and won the governorship. That was in 1940. In that same election, Chep Morrison was sent to the legislature...
...most popular escort" by the city's debutantes. He was dashing and debonair. In spare moments in 1936, he worked for the election of a reform candidate for governor against Huey's man, Richard Leche (rhymes with mesh). Leche won the governorship but later went to jail (and has now quietly retired to a farm...
...pale, thin lips of Bee County's Sheriff Robert Vail Ennis. And both statements have been roughly true. Day or night a lady could sashay unmenaced up Beeville's streets, past the cream stuccoed Kohler Hotel, the Blue Bonnet Café, and the two-story buff brick jail where Sheriff Ennis lives with his wife and daughter and keeps evildoers under lock...
...first man when he shot "his way out of a tight place while making an arrest. He was tried for murder, and acquitted. A year later he was elected sheriff. Fifteen days on the job, he blasted the life out of a big Negro he had brought into the jail office for disturbing the peace. The prisoner, he said, had tried to take his gun. There were no witnesses...
...tricked him. And Göring, had been only one of his victims : Van Meegeren confessed that six "Vermeers" and several "Pieter de Hoochs" lining the Palace of Justice walls were really the work of his hand. Last week Forger Van Meegeren was sentenced to a year in jail...