Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police advised Montreal Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau of Father Taillefer's arrest. Said the Archbishop: "I want justice to take its normal course." His only request was that Defendant Taillefer not be allowed to wear a priest's garb in court. In his jail cell, Arthur Taillefer was handed an ill-fitting brown gabardine suit, took it without protest. He wore it when he went to trial...
...minor whirl. Some of them tangled with the ultra-polite. London Bobbies who had to remind them that British traffic really did run on the left-hand side of the road. Some penetrated the iron curtain and became small international incidents before AMG authorities got them released from jail...
Everything But ... In Philadelphia, Herbert Lee Bailey was sentenced to jail for stealing a kitchen sink...
...Wings ... In Calgary, Alta., Roofer Arnold Larson's jail sentence for drunken driving was postponed until he finished fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...
Judge Holtzoff said, "The Government cannot jail an employee for using the right of free speech, but it can fire him if it doesn't like what he says...