Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand that the management of Rockefeller Center be kidnapped, investigated, calumniated, and thrown into jail. Especially Mr. Rockefeller Jr., who has been one of my greatest enemies for years. SATAN
Monday morning, the New York Times carried a story about Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Toole, parents of four young children, who were sentenced to three years in jail for taking relief when they had $11,000 in the bank. The judge declared they had done "a nasty, grasping, thieving, low trick...
Although the witness finally became inextricably confused in his own testimony and was not asked to give evidence under oath, the Munich Court ended by sentencing naturalized U. S. Citizen Karl Nisselbeck to a jail term of two years for being "an accessory to attempted high treason" to Germany committed by "plotting" with two Germans. One of these two the court acquitted; the other was sentenced to nine months...
...other way, a most unusual sentence was imposed last week in Schwerin, the home town of the new Nazi Martyr "Saint Gustloff." The prisoner, one Adolph Seefeld, was sentenced by Schwerin's methodical court to be placed in "preventive detention" indefinitely, to serve 15 years in jail, to be castrated and to be beheaded, this last sentence to be carried out first. Aged 65, Schwerin's sinful Seefeld had killed a dozen young boys in the course of his orgies...
...head, he held up 28 stages, never shot anyone. At each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...