Word: lockups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime crooks and drunks sleeping it off, the Christmas spirit struck. Marion offered to foot the fines for all concerned and empty the jail. The magistrate explained that such wholesale amnesty was impossible. However, he pointed to two regular customers who were sober enough...