Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois, last week, at the Stateville and Joliet Penitentiaries, began a high-school correspondence course with 22 convict-students, this faculty: Scholar-Murderer Richard Loeb, director and instructor in English composition, history and Spanish; Attorney-Kidnapper Joseph Pursifull, Latin; Engineer-Forger Mark Oettinger, mathematics; Student-Bandit Edward ("Toddy") Dillon, English literature...
Sanctioned by Joliet,Ill. Penitentiary officials was a proposed high school correspondence course for inmates, to be conducted by Prisoners Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb...
...corridors of a high school in Cicero, Ill. last week. They rasped commands: "Get along now! No loitering!" They insulted girls, jostled students who infringed upon even the most trivial school regulation. Complained a student: "These dumb house dicks push us around like we're convicts at Joliet...
...Joliet, Ill., Rev. John Keating of Sacred Heart Catholic Church found the rectory safe locked. No one knew the combination. Rev. Keating appealed to Warden Frank Whipp of Illinois State Penitentiary for an expert safecracker. Warden Whipp demurred...
Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...