Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked for a modified version of his model labor law. The House acquiesced but the Senate not only refused to pass the new bill but re-passed the old one, the Governor's support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort of one-man rump, while seven House members met in what no one was quite sure...
Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail, Sergeant Fairbanks knew what was expected of him. He had the keys which would lead through six locked but unguarded cell doors to Richard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder...
...prison at Kilby, Ala. was Negro Haywood Patterson, 24, convicted for the fourth time in January 1936 of raping Victoria Price, and sentenced to 75 years. In the jail at Birmingham were Negro Clarence Norris, 24, similarly convicted last fortnight and sentenced to death; Negro Andy Wright, 25, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 99 years; Negro Charlie Weems, 26, rape-convicted last week and sentenced to 75 years; and Negro Ozie Powell, 22, excused from the rape charge but sentenced to 20 years for knifing a guard last year...
...Vera Cruz Harry and Limo hid out with Limo's girl, Alicia, in her dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does...
...having been allowed to keep the floor for four hours. although the rules impose a one-hour limit. Previously he set another record as a Federal Circuit judge, hearing 12,000 cases in eight years and being reversed only 18 times. Once, while a lynch mob was besieging a jail, he tucked his night shirt into his trousers, hurried to the scene, announced: "This court is now in session. Anyone who violates the court's orders will be sentenced for contempt." When he ordered the crowd to disperse it meekly obeyed...