Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...
...Paris fortnight ago the Frenchman who got 20 years for peaching on Nurse Cavell to the Germans, M. George Gaston Quien, was out of jail, having served 17 years. While a prisoner he fell heir to a large fortune and his sentence was commuted. Last week, fashionably dressed but prematurely white-haired and prison-pale, M. Quien was bustling about with his lawyers. "My demand is for a new trial and complete exoneration," he said. "This is a case of mistaken identity. It was not I but another man who disclosed to the Germans the activities of Nurse Cavell...
...Connecticut, and thus Banker Raven conducted his business as he pleased, lived quietly in his $150,000 mansion, contributed to local churches, never drank, and invited confidence with the friendly slogan: Deposit Your Money in This Bank and Become A Partner. While her husband sat in a Shanghai jail, Mrs. Raven continued last week to reside in Germany at Heidelberg, where the Raven daughters are completing their higher education...
...song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald) is a pettish, kittenish opera singer whose scapegrace brother (James Stewart, see p. 28) has escaped from jail, murdered a pursuing officer. To bring him financial assistance, she treks toward his cabin in the woods. Cheated on the way by an Indian guide, she meets Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Bruce (Nelson Eddy), likewise on the trail of her brother. Un aware that he suspects the family connection...
Having been convicted fortnight ago of criminal negligence in the burning of the T. E. L. Mono Castle, the defendants last week received the following sentences: Acting Captain William F. Warms, two years in jail; Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, four years in jail; New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co., a fine of $10,000; its executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud, a fine of $5,000, a suspended sentence of a year in jail...