Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry Ford Sinclair, No. 10,520 in the Washington, D. C., jail, heard some bad news last week. Already incarcerated for contempt of the Senate, he heard that the U. S. Supreme Court had sustained his six-month sentence for contempt of court. He carried on with his duties in the prison pharmacy, certain in the knowledge that he would spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars...
There was little satisfaction for Convict Sinclair in the knowledge that, by simultaneous decision of the Supreme Court, he was to have a friend in the jail with him-Manhattan's Henry Mason Day, the friend who had tried to help him in his first oil scandal trial and received a four-month sentence as a result...
...followed an eleven-week hearing before the trial justice. Sinclair's defense was that he had had the jurors followed to protect them against federal influences; that in no case had the operatives made direct contact with the jurors. The trial justice sentenced Sinclair to six months in jail, Day to four months, William J. Burns to 15 days and son William Sherman Burns, to pay a $1,000 fine...
...Boxley was promptly arrested, lodged in the jail at Trenton, a neighboring village. That night several thousand people milled about the jail, beat on its door, demanded Joe. The officials slipped Joe out a back way and carried him to Alamo, put him in the jail there. It was after 3 a. m. Joe lay down in his cell, dozed...
...Dennett, fined $300 for mailing her "obscene" pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life, appealed the conviction. She said that she would go to jail rather than...