Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux Mayor W. H. N. Stevens, Newark, Ohio (population 30,000) suffered a visitation in his office last week. "How are you, Bailiff?" he queried. Bailiff Robert Darnes arrested His Honor, removed a large revolver from his person, lodged him in Licking County Jail, charged with soliciting bribes. Half hour later, His Honor's stenographer, Miss Margaret Flowers, was also arrested, for active association in the Mayor's alleged requests of traveling salesmen for $100 "contributions...
When vigorous Dan Moody becomes Governor of Texas next month, he will find the jail population waning. The sympathetic heart of Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson has been beating fast as the day of her political demise approaches. On Thanksgiving Day she pardoned 40 convicts; gave six furloughs, three paroles, two restorations of citizenship. During the 21 months of her governorship, Mrs. Ferguson has issued 2,645 clemency proclamations-a record for Texas...
...chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail in the morning. Each furnished a $300 bond. No one seemed to know who owned the suitcase. "Plain Bill" offered to let the raiders search his person; said he was merely an invited guest who was enjoying a little fishing by day and poker by night...
Something new in the history of Georgia was brought about last week when Major Brown, white, pleaded guilty as the leader of the lynching party which dragged Dave Wright, white, out of jail in August and killed him.* Eight other members of the party followed Major Brown's precedent by also pleading guilty. Thereupon, Judge Harry Reed of Douglas, Ga., sentenced Major Brown to life imprisonment and his companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken...
...party (Kenseikai) he would issue an order transferring the filles de joie of Osaka to a new quarter of the city owned by the speculators. The money was paid, but the order was not issued. Recently the aged onetime (1914-16) Minister of Communications K. Minoura was thrown into jail on charges arising from the incident. Premier Wakatsuki, called to testify, whitewashed himself and tarred Minister Minoura under oath. The Opposition contends that the Premier perjured himself, began last week with their gruesome gift a campaign to upset the Cabinet...