Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial, Miss Whitney admitted having joined the Communist party. True, she had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions or even damaging machinery (sabotage), but California had, still has, a criminal syndicalism act by which membership alone in certain proscribed organizations is in itself considered worthy of a jail sentence...
...there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...Prison Santé. There Mme. Daudet made arrangements to have her husband supplied with his favorite viands from a neighboring restaurant; and brought him, later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother of M. Daudet sent an open letter to Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action française. The world could not but listen; for this frail old lady is the widow of Alphonse...
...Salisbury, Md., six weeks ago one Mrs. Mary Hearn, for 18 years Farmer Samuel Russell's housekeeper, burned down his house after a quarrel. Since then she has been in jail, waiting trial for arson. Last week Farmer Russell, feeling remorse for having made her angry enough to want to burn him to death, went to jail, where he married her. Other prisoners threw beans at the hugging couple...
...newspapers frankly condoned the murder. At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...