Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Corruption of public trust in high places, acts akin to treason and affecting the entire nation, cannot be tolerated or condoned. It appears conceded as a fact established during several thousand years, and not now to be philosophized away, that the fabric of justice cannot endure if mercy be permitted...
With these words the Federal Board of Parole in Washington last week decided to keep invalid, impoverished Albert Bacon Fall, 70, in the New Mexico State Penitentiary at Santa Fe to the legal limit of his year-and-a-day sentence. Petitions for his parole and for executive clemency had...
Convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny while he was Secretary of the Interior, Prisoner No. 6991 has behaved himself well, should, with good time off, get out May 8. Still unpaid is his $100,000 fine. If he is unable to pay it, he...
In Columbus, Ohio. William Phillips, serving a two-year sentence in jail, refused a parole. Said he: "Food's good, bed's good, and I like the people."
As police brought in Oliver and wrung a confession from him, the first of four lynching attempts occurred. Escaping the mob at Ypsilanti, the three were taken to the Ann Arbor jail, where a fresh mob gathered, tore at the prisoners' clothes, clawed their faces, cried for their blood...