Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mann and Jull H. Wattenburg of Urbana, Ill., were sent to the Washington County Jail after they were discovered stealing merchandise from two stores in Montpelier's Vermont Shopping Center. They spent last night at the jail...
...people who came onto his property. Ben Thompson, at the age of 13, deliberately shot a playmate. He later killed a Frenchman in a New Orleans knife duel. And when in the Confederate Army, he killed several men in his company. He killed someone in Texas, and went to jail for two years. He became a hired gunfighter, and was killed along with King Fisher by unknown assassins in Jack Harris's Vaudeville Theatre. Bat Masterson wrote of him: "There was never a better-hearted man than Ben Thompson. It is doubtful if in his time there was another...
Addicts, of course, get arrested a lot. After puking in a cell going through "cold turkey" Augie Nigro got a choice between four years in jail and Daytop Village...
...first they refused to tell us what we were charged with, but conferred for a half hour trying to figure out the most serious offenses they could get away with booking us on. In the end we were charged with idle and disorderly conduct (max. penalty: a year in jail). disturbing the peace (6 mos. and a $500 fine). and defacing private property...
...students, who now face up to one year in jail and heavy fines, had been putting up posters about the October 4 anti-war march sponsored by the Worker-Student Alliance faction...