Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, 1,530,000 men and women voted for a middle-aged widow named Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp and elected her as New York State's first female Secretary of State. Last week, twelve New Yorkers, sitting on a jury, voted to send Mrs. Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand, Mrs. Knapp said...
...Knapp had been considered a gentlewoman. She was descended from Ebenezer Hancock, brother of famed John Hancock. She had held positions of high responsibility, including superintendence of public schools and the deanship of the Home Economics College at Syracuse University. Now, grey-haired, handsomely dressed, she must go to jail...
...nocturnal activity near Harkness Hall provided the incentive for the demonstration. A group of students resented the presence of the machine and attempted to halt its progress. In the ensuing disorder, street-cars were besieged, and their trolleys disconnected. One of the Yale men was speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage of brick-bats, was repulsed with the loss...
...Baldwin was sentenced to six months in jail. The rest were fined. The Supreme Court of New Jersey upheld the verdicts...
...Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct. He was charged with having made personal use of funds given to him for supposedly charitable purposes. For it, he had been convicted abroad and sentenced to three months in jail by a civil court...