Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents settled near Flagstaff. Ariz. When he was 12. his father's cattle business ceased to prosper. Henry helped out at home, hired out as a range rider, attending the Flagstaff schools in the winter. At 18 he got the job of turnkey at the Flagstaff County Jail, subsequently becoming a deputy sheriff. A spell at the Stockton (Calif.) Business College fitted him for the law. Aged 21, he was elected to the Arizona Territorial Legislature. Two years later he became Speaker, and in the same year was admitted to the bar and hung out his shingle at Williams...
...judge then smacked heavy fines, with alternatives of jail sentences at hard labor in Fort Saskatchewan jail, upon Publisher Charles E. Campbell and Reporter Cowper of the Edmonton Bulletin. Both grumblingly paid...
Until this winter the Premier-killer sat in jail, was let out after the Sublime Emperor joyously decreed a general amnesty to celebrate the birth of Crown Prince Tsugu-no-Miya (TIME...
Died. Henry Hollis Horton. 68, one-time (1927-33) Governor of Tennessee; after a long illness: in Chapel Hill. Tenn. In 1931 an attempt to impeach him. charging connivance with Publisher Luke Lea (now in a Federal jail for misapplication of funds), was voted down...
Finally in Manhattan, Lemuel does the Algerian thing by stopping a runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death...