Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...echo from the past came the account by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. retired Assistant Attorney-General, of the prosecution of Prohibition cases. With patent pride she gave the year's figures: 56,786 new cases started, 56,455 finished; 47,100 convictions. 1,477 acquittals; 21,602 jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial "while only...
Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
Last week, while her distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
...young Giacomo was clever, and when the opportunity of a priestly career fell in his way he seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi...
Next evening the Mob marched to Eastland jail. They dragged Murderer Ratliff from his bunk, stripped him of his clothes, paraded him 200 yards through the main streets to a telegraph pole. A rope jerked Ratliff off the ground, broke, let him down with a thump. Under the code of the Old West, when a lynching rope broke, the victim was freed. Eastland that night did not follow the Old West's code. Fifteen terrible minutes passed before a new grass rope was produced. Up went Ratliff a second time...