Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wing, Minn. Five years ago he addressed an envelope to a Red Wing banker thus: "R. W. Putnam, robber of widows and orphans." Tried and convicted in Federal court of sending defamatory matter through the mails, he was fined $500, sentenced to a year and a day in the Leavenworth Penitentiary. In Washington, where he has made much radical noise, Representative Shoemaker is shamelessly proud of his prison sentence. He tried unsuccessfully to insert in his Congressional Directory biography: "The first man straight from prison to Congress, instead of from Congress to prison." When he was swept into office...
...Haskell Bohn of St. Paul (ransom: $12,000) and in 1933 of Charles Boettcher II of Denver (ransom: $60,000), whom he hid on his Dakota turkey ranch. Next day Sankey's accomplice, Gordon Alcorn, was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life in Leavenworth for his part in the snatchings...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...Unfortunately, this does not appeal to Mr. Shoemaker of Wisconsin. What we need even more than a five cent cigar, he avers, is whiskey at twenty-five cents a quart. As an after-thought he appended the interesting information that when he was a guest of the government at Leavenworth Prison, there were a hundred and seventy stills within the prison walls. One can only regret that Norman Douglas' gentleman who laid all the ills of the world to a faulty method of fornication, and who had invented a new and better system to remedy this was not in attendance...
...Herbert Huse Bigelow, head of Brown & Bigelow, advertising specialty makers of St. Paul, was indicted for income tax evasion. He pleaded guilty, was fined $10,000, given two years in Leavenworth. There he was assigned to work under a friendly Texan named Charles Ward, once a mechanical engineer, who had also been sentenced for revenue law violations. Sharing the same cell, Bigelow and Ward soon became fast friends. They talked over the details of Bigelow's business, discussed ways & means of running it in the future. Said Bigelow to his friend: "I'm going to remold...