Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scotchman, spent time and money attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers...
...last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving off his mustache. Arrested, he admitted his guilt, said that he expected to spend the rest of his life in jail, maintained that it was better for the depositors of the six Manhattan banks to lose $500,000 than for that loss to be concentrated on the depositors of Telluride. It was believed also that he had a grudge against Eastern capitalists who had purchased and closed down (to eliminate competition) various...
District penal institutions, explained that the rides were merely jail routine. Said he: "The board of Public Welfare felt, however, that the publicity given Sinclair's assignment made it unwise to continue him in that capacity. It is very unfortunate that this should happen, for some people will regard the board's order as an act of discrimination against Mr. Sinclair...
...automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating the state prohibition law. Results: Heflin Jr. received a visit from the pastor of St. Paul's' Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus, Ga., the Rev. Marvin H. Heflin, brother of James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Senior. It was junior Heflin's third...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago thug, in jail in Philadelphia, had his tonsils removed...