Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still helping U. S. Attorney John T. Cahill catch other rich practitioners of the smuggling game at which he specialized was Albert Chapereau (Shapiro), who last week was sentenced to two years in jail for masterminding the crookery that got Radio Star Jack Benny and Comedian George Burns into the law's toils (TIME, April 17). Last week Attorney Cahill sent to Governor Lehman information tending to show that Judge Edgar Lauer knew plenty about his wife's smuggling. Four days later Judge Lauer resigned...
...more naval officers than even he had dreamed of. The real lieutenant noted the bogus buttons, the stripes a little too high on his sleeve, a real Rear Admiral and a real Commander decided he was no spy, whisked him off the ship, plopped him into a city jail. Next day, instead of sending John Husted to jail for impersonating an officer, they condemned him to return to his wife and to the laughter of men who had not been caught at their daydreaming...
...granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly was jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey. But again...
...that they make him a permanent guest, even stealing liquor from a neighboring store (the heroine, a member of the town's temperance league, can't buy it publicly) to keep him contented. News that a notorious criminal, of similar description, has just escaped from a neighboring jail disturbs the old maid somewhat, but she reflects that "it is better to be killed by a man than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid...
...surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...