Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only when Moe Rosenberg was indicted by a Chicago grand jury for failure to pay $65,000 taxes, did the full light of publicity fall upon Mr. Rosenberg's lurid past: a confession of guilt to an arson charge in 1913; a 20-month sentence to Leavenworth in 1915 for stealing from freight cars. Last week Chicago papers promised that the Rosenberg trial "would rival that of Capone," would painfully air a basketful of local and Statewide dirty Democratic linen...
...beer is non-intoxicating, can it be sold at Army posts in Dry states, aboard Naval vessels in Dry harbors? Last week Army Corps orders were issued for its sale at Fort Leavenworth...
...William Kirby Robinson, aged 31, robbed an Arkansas post orifice, was sentenced to four years in Leavenworth Penitentiary ("Bankers' Institute"). On his way to prison he picked his handcuffs loose, plunged from a moving train at Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told...
...Campbell Bascom Slemp, Calvin Coolidge's onetime secretary, paid an election bet by shipping a ton of coal from Camden to Washington by air (cost: $147). In Louisville, one Charles Jernigan won two white chickens for his pot. In Omaha. Loser Lillian Zack carried Winner Remus Jobe down Leavenworth Street in a wheelbarrow. At Los Angeles, Hooverite Will Healy let Rooseveltian Manuel Alonzo pitch 24 rotten eggs...
...public golf course at Kansas City, Mo., last week, Federal detectives picked up three players, identified two of them, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, as mail-train robbers who escaped from Leavenworth two years ago; a third, John Brown, as one of the men who held up the Citizens' National Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. last month. Their wives, idly watching the game from a parked car, had guns in their handbags...