Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrors of Georgia state prison camps, as "Road Gang" paints them, but if they are authentic, we do not hesitate to dub it one of the most dramatic--yes, gripping--frame-up stories of the year. The movie is good blood-and-thunder stuff: political muckraking, frame-ups, jail-breaks, murder, the lash, electrocution. The action moved so fast we forgot all about the possible exaggerations and errors, all except one little flaw where a Western Union messenger boy delivers a telegram which turns out to be printed-on a Postal Telegraph blank. You have probably never heard of Donald...
...Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and William Dever, Dr. Bundesen had a ringside seat at a memorable...
...trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities. By some mistake Wendel was committed to Mercer County jail, not on the 1931 charges, as planned, but on a charge of having murdered Charles Lindbergh Jr., the crime for which Hauptmann was to be executed three days later. In jail Wendel flatly repudiated his confession, said it had been wrung from him after a week's torture...
...barber shop and given a job on a news paper, forces a crook to tell who killed the baby by publishing the statement that he has told all, thus making him afraid he will be executed as a squealer by his onetime pals if he leaves jail, whose protection is refused him unless he does tell...
...year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. in 1930 was Colonel Luke Lea, 57, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, long a potent Tennessee publisher & politician. With Son Luke Lea Jr., who spent 79 days in jail after a similar conviction, he scurried off to Nashville by automobile...