Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room was littered with gin and whiskey bottles. On the table was a half-eaten angel cake. On the floor of the room were some of Kelly's sawed-off machine guns, weapons he had learned to use after listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...
Last week newsmen went to see Charles Ward, who had just been left $1,000,000 by a man he had met in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Jovial Charles Ward gave one of his interviewers a gold cigaret lighter, told his story...
...Last week President Roosevelt pardoned Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite who, convicted in 1930 of libeling a banker by addressing him as "a robber of widows and orphans," served a term in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Also pardoned was. his secretary. "Not only am I the only ex-convict in Congress," boasted Mr. Shoemaker, ''but I am the only man to emerge from the White House with two pardons as well...
...bald, big-nosed man, was to complete his two-year tour of duty. He had just come back from Washington where, as a deserving Democrat, he felt he had made a good impression. There was a chance that he might become head of the Federal prison at nearby Leavenworth ("The Bankers' Institute"). He turned his attention to the ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners were watching the game attentively, for the score was 2 to 2 in the fifth inning. Suddenly Warden Prather felt a wire noose slip...
...ground that his prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed "robber of orphans and widows." Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a "foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S." was backing Cuban revolutionaries in the U. S. He proposed an investigation...