Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Hamilton, 35, bandit, whom Dillinger helped to escape from the Indiana State Prison last September. Month later Hamilton returned the favor by delivering Dillinger from the jail in Lima, Ohio, killing a sheriff. The pair robbed banks, shot policemen with precise criminal skill...
Germany. Official Germany was on edge with hope that the butchers of Engelbert Dollfuss would succeed in upsetting the Austrian Government. When they were clapped into jail Adolf Hitler had to work fast. Unfortunately the German Chancellor's duly appointed Inspector General for Austria, blustering Theodor Habicht, had said while broadcasting from Munich at the height of the excitement that Dollfuss' slayers were "returning" to Germany. That slip caused Chancellor Hitler to fire Herr Habicht from...
...Tuesday the judge sentenced them to three hours in jail...
...Wednesday the judge asked: "Are you ready to talk?" Newsmen Durham and Carty were not; they went to jail for another six hours...
...Thursday Judge Harlan said: "If this is an endurance contest, boys, I can stand it." That day the "boys" spent six hours more in jail...