Word: maillefert
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Trustworthy TIME is grievously in error when it intimates that Arthur Maillefert was done to death in a Florida "sweat-box"' for the petty crime of "stealing $30" (TIME, Oct. 24, "March of Time...
...Maillefert was prosecuted in the Criminal Court of Record of Volusia County under two informations in which I charged him with: i) Robbery While Armed and 2) Larceny of an Automobile, both of which are high crimes in most States. On the first charge he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and on the second to two years, both in the State Penitentiary. In view of the circumstances under which the crimes were committed and because of the utter lack of extenuating facts, the punishment was fully warranted and eminently fair. The tragic consequence of the imprisonment should...
HERBERT B. FREDERICK County Solicitor, Criminal Court of Record Daytona Beach, Fla. Upon Captain George Washington Courson, prison guard found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Prisoner Maillefert, Florida Justice (Judge George Cooper Gibbs) imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison (the maximum).-ED. Appeal to a Husband (Making exception for an extraordinary case. TIME prints the subjoined letters without names, address or obligation. If enough readers desire such service, TIME will establish a special lineage rate for "personal"' advertisements, to be printed in a fixed position in the magazine each week.-ED.) Sirs...
Another convict-Higginbotham said he would rather kill Maillefert than...
When prisoners showed the jury how the Sunbeam neck chain and stocks were applied, Mrs. Julia Maillefert, the dead boy's mother, nearly fainted. Rallying, said she: "I am going to sit through the trial to see what kind of justice they mete out down here. I wish they'd just get one man from New Jersey on the jury...