Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...captors in Magdeburg threw Private Moncaster into jail. When he tried to escape, they put him in solitary on bread & water. After six months, a Russian officer came and told Moncaster he had been sentenced to three years in prison for "espionage...
Saadi was whipped. In rapid succession he was thrown i) out of the Peronista party and 2) into jail. The charge: showing disrespect for the President...
Confinement Case. In Honolulu, police added it all up, found that since 1923 :heir star prisoner had paid $2,089.50 in fines, spent 7,736 days in jail, been arrested 222 times for drunkenness...
None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer Joe Migon had sneaked a tiny camera in his shoe past the machine.) Fordney charged that the man had been painted in the chair and pointed out "discrepancies" between the actual execution and the picture. Where there had been a dark electrode on Morelli's right leg, the heavily...