Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
...midnight in the District of Columbia jail & asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
Just what he meant by that he did not explain. His statement for the printed press was handed out?and mailed broadcast to smalltown editors throughout the land?by his Manhattan office. "Railroaded to jail. . . . Sins I have not committed. . . . A man of honor and integrity," were some of the things it said. Also...
...Christmas Eve, 1927, Marshall Ratliff disguised himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law's delay. Feigning paralysis, Ratliff last week snatched a gun from Jailor Tom Jones, killed him, but failed to escape...
...paints pictures, is taken up by a patron, lionized, supplied with a mistress. End of Part II. He is happy with her until he discovers she is mercenary. This tragic realization merely amuses her. He rushes out, sees a nightmare of cheap love everywhere, goes crazy, ends up in jail. He escapes, is pursued, chased over a cliff into a river. End of Part III. He comes to himself, safe, in the mountains; a goat-girl has saved him. They marry, they are happy. Comes a baby. End of Part IV. One day the masked stranger reappears. The artist waves...