Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure to be convicted were told to "take it on the lam" (disappear temporarily) and their bail was forfeited. "We have identified," cried Prosecutor Dewey, "some 170-odd arrests for prostitution in 1935 in which the girls worked for this combination. Not one of these girls ever went to jail...
...Ruxton, strangled his wife and the pretty nursemaid who saw him do it, subsequently dismembered his victims and threw the bloody fragments into a Scottish ravine known as The Devil's Beef tub (TIME, March 23), British Justice last week hanged this murderer in the courtyard of Strangeways Jail, Manchester...
...Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...
...Lepanto, Ark. a 19-year-old Negro named Willie Kees was warned to leave town before a mob judged him guilty of a recent assault on a white woman, treated him accordingly. Kees left, last week foolishly returned, was arrested. Before he reached jail ten men snatched him away from the sheriff, bound his hands behind his back, drilled him with bullets that brought Arkansas' lynching total...
...meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled off to jail in San Francisco, indicted for murder. Psychiatrists examined him, ad judged him insane. To police Peter Voiss burst out: "To the crazy house I will not go. It's as if a boy passed you and threw a rock, then passed again and threw an other and another...