Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those days. Jim Montgomery's trial, on a capital charge, lasted only one day. The prosecution offered no convincing medical proof of rape, but the jury convicted him anyway. He was sent to Joliet for life...
System. In Joliet, Ill., Otis Wendling, a prize safe driver for ten years, revealed that good driving is easy: the trick is to "drive defensively, as if other drivers are dangerous maniacs...
...quarter of a century after he started serving 99 years for the 1924 thrill-murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, Nathan Leopold wanted out of Joliet prison (his partner in crime, Richard Loeb, was killed by a fellow inmate 13 years ago). "When I came here I was 19 . . . a wild, irresponsible kid," he told the Illinois State Parole Board. "I feel that in 25 years I have matured considerably . . . I am not a kid any more." The board reserved decision...
...After serving 28 years of a life term for murder, in the Joliet, (Ill.) penitentiary, Calogero Boscio, 65, asked for his freedom. Until he got to prison, he said, he had been under the impression that he was being held only as a witness...
Munroe, who will graduate from the Law School in January, competed in Illinois and in the north-central area as a resident of Joliet, Illinois. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1943 and in 1944 was first in a class of 1100 midshipmen at Columbia. He retired last week as director of the Legal Aid Bureau...