Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the liberal Weltbuhne, von Ossietzky enraged German militarists by exposing their part in the famed Feme Murders. Under a strongly Socialist Government he was sentenced to jail, then fined instead. In 1929 the Weltbuhne published an article entitled Windy News of German Aviation, exposing the extent of German rearmament. In a historic trial von Ossietzky got a year-and-a-half prison sentence. A petition signed by 50,000 Germans failed to free him but an amnesty ordered by Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher...
...Indianapolis' county jail 80 prisoners grew nauseated after their noon meal. Sheriff Otto Ray thought that someone, perhaps hoping for a jailbreak, had poured disinfectant into the gravy...
...burnt effigy of Mr. Apted in yesterday's Crimson criticized his handling of the Dunster House janitor case. Had Mr. Apted placed the case in the hands of the Cambridge Police immediately, the students implicated and perhaps others would have spent several days in jail, and met with a great deal more inconvenience than they actually...
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...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. He locked them in their cell, walked upstairs and out the jail's front door, where he was met by Gardini and Mayeski, who had twisted off the rusty bars of their cell window...