Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost buddy, was surprised to find his buddy a crook. Thus Mr. Delaney went to jail...
...left for Manhattan. The police were to find the bones of the drugged boarder charred beyond all recognition; Mrs. Lawson was then to collect her husband's $75,000 insurance. But the boarder regained consciousness in time to jump out of a window; and Mr. Lawson went to jail...
There was no warrant or written complaint against Frederick Jockell, attorney of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Yet he was arrested in Manhattan on a charge of grand larceny, clapped into jail with "a howling Chinaman." So, claiming that he had been humiliated, Mr. Jockell sued Detective John J. Quinn (who arrested him) for $25,000. Last week a jury upheld Mr. Jockell to the extent of $1,000. Presiding Justice Joseph Morschauser of the New York Supreme Court added: "The verdict should have been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful...
...Once in jail, Heinrich Langkopf made his great apologia on the basis of the following facts: 1) In 1914 he was established in German East Africa as a planter; 2) Immediately upon the declaration of War, he enlisted, fought, lived to see his whole property confiscated by the Allies; 3) For the past eight years he has been in Berlin with his wife and child, seeking the indemnity which is due him from the German War Indemnification Office, of which Privy Councilor Hugo Bach is chairman; 4) Due to bureaucratic delays, he has received only 9,000 marks, although promised...
...Trial Marriage. As it was then, it is now, a too wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample but is gathered after too many innings of intense conversation. Phyllis Poyah acts it well...