Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the ledgers, and shaking his head at what he saw. Neville, who had not been seen for several days, was soon found and arrested. He confessed his peculations to Mr. Abramson, exonerated all his Manhattan and Boston associates. By week's end he was in Boston City Jail, waiting trial for grand larceny, and the year's prize story for crooked publishing was ready for an airing...
...judge prepared to sentence Helen Love to from seven years to life in prison, she returned to her cell, told a jail matron: "I can sit in this chair, or lie down on this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...
While in San Quentin Neil wrote a poem which was accepted by the Mother's Day League and wrote an appeal for pardon which brought tears to the board. He escaped, however, before he was pardoned. He is now in jail...
...renew the injunction. The disappointed seamen had small consolation in the Bland Bill, passed by the House last week as a compromise measure, giving sailors a choice of "fink books" or scarcely less revelatory "certificates of identification." Provided, however, was a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail for anyone attempting to blacklist holders of either...
Sentenced. Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom...