Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME. Nov. 25: "In Spring Valley, Ill., when Prisoners James Gardini and Felix Mayeski asked Mayor-Judge Tonelli for mercy on the grounds that they could have escaped from the jail had they chosen, the Mayor bet them their freedom they could not escape...
...happened in a village two miles north of Spring Valley, Dalzell, Ill. Now I will admit that our jail is not much better than the one in Dalzell but the escapes in the past from our jail did not get the widespread publicity that this incident did. Then too our Mayor, the Hon. John Doyle, surely must feel hurt to have the Hon. Albert Tonelli mentioned as Mayor of Spring Valley. Remember, Sirs, that these dignitaries have their feelings hurt very easily, so watch your step. NORMAN H. LYNN D. D. S. Spring Valley...
...Government. The nine old gentlemen swished into their places at the bench with a majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right of the Government to jail a man for "obstructing interstate commerce" in that he stole a bale of cotton from a Government bonded warehouse. The Court gave no answer in the matter of law but it did agree unanimously that the man's conviction should be set aside because he had not been properly indicted...
...jury of twelve commoners, a lord by the House of Lords. In 1901 occurred the last trial of a peer by his peers, that of Earl Russell who was convicted of bigamy and received the light sentence on which a peer can traditionally count, three months in jail...
...second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism. A third is Ed Bell, who last week published Fish on the Steeple, a rowdy, hilarious novel that captured the flavor of life in the small hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers...