Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thief John Dillinger, on whose grave near Indianapolis last week appeared a spray of greens inscribed "Merry Christmas, Old Pal," was the No. 1 catch of a New Deal's crime drive which in one year landed every major public enemy save one in jail or grave, solved seven out of eleven kidnappings, convicted three kidnappers...
...news. Shortly after the baby disappeared, Mr. Curtis went up from Norfolk, Va. to tell Col. Lindbergh that he was in touch with the kidnappers. When the child's body was found, Curtis renounced his story, was convicted of obstructing justice. He was just barely kept out of jail by Lawyer W. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington. In the past two years he and Lawyer Fisher have grown to be fast friends. Flabbergasted was Friend Fisher, now an associate in Hauptmann's defense, last week when Friend Curtis switched his story again, announced that he was now ready...
...Governor to one Albert Cabell Ritchie by 165 votes. He devoted himself to the pleasures of politics, to being jolly with many people, to joining clubs and lodges, to his law practice. As one of Maryland's noted criminal attorneys, he saved many a notorious gentleman from jail. But last autumn when Albert Ritchie came up for election for a fifth consecutive time, jolly, likeable Crook-Defender Nice was waiting at the polls to take back the election he lost in 1919. Now he has the job of running Maryland with a depleted treasury and a Democratic General Assembly...
That night John Gibson, Lillian's father, and a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught a 22-year-old illiterate Negro named E. K. Harris. He was accused of Lillian's rape, taken to the Shelbyville jail. When a hillbilly mob went to Shelbyville, demanding that Harris be turned over to them, authorities spirited Harris away, first to Murfreesboro, then up to Nashville...
Prisoner. Flemington's strictly modern jail was built in 1930. Since Oct. 19 it has housed in Cell No.1 Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the 34-year-old German carpenter whom the people of the State of New Jersey charge with first degree murder. Hauptmann's wife Anna and their infant son Mannfried have been living in a Flemington boarding house ever since he was extradited from New York. Townsfolk nod kindly to her as she walks down the main street with her son. His jailers also say that Bruno is "a nice guy." But ever since he has been...