Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hammond had with her in Johannesburg Mr. Hammond's sister and her little boy Jackie* (her second son) aged eight. The preliminary trial of the Reform Committee soon began "for high treason" but about that time Mr. Hammond fell ill with dysentery. Mrs. Hammond got him out of jail under guard, nursed him herself. Finally under $100,000 bail he was allowed to leave the country and go to Cape Town...
...Free State and was not even a citizen of the republic, sentenced the four leaders to be hanged. There was an uproar of protest even from the Boers. Next morning President Kruger commuted the sentence, but meantime a gallows had been erected. For several weeks the prisoners lay in jail, this time in galvanized iron shacks, 22 men in a shed 30 ft. by 10 ft. One man lost his mind, cut his throat...
...time it was announced that the leaders would only have to spend 15 years in prison, the others lesser terms. Mark Twain appeared in the Rand and visited the prisoners and told them that after all there was no place where one was so safe from interruption as in jail. At the end of May all but six were allowed to pay $10,000 fine and go free. In mid-June President Kruger released the six, fining Mr. Hammond $125,000. A few weeks later in England Mrs. Hammond gave birth to her third...
...textile strike which for 12 weeks had been enlivening the annals of New Jersey with accounts of strikers dispersed with clubs, tear bombs, riot acts and jail sentences, spent its 13th week in a futile research for a peace settlement...
...moment had been planned with elaborate care. Early in the evening the hundred gentlemen motored to the Picayune jail where the man, one Harold ("Doc") Jackson, was held as an accessory in the murder of two government entomologists found dead near Picayune. The grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door...