Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That not inconsiderable number of people who doubt the sincerity of Germany's outward change of heart since the War, and who watch with suspicious eyes for signs that the old spirit still lingers, will find plenty to reassure them in the escape of Lieutenant Dittmar from the prison in Naumberg. Condemned by the Supreme Court of Leipsig for his connection with the sinking of the hospital-ship Liandovery Castle during the war, he was given the heavy sentence of four years as an "example and a warning", and an earnest of good faith on the part of the German...
Germany is trying comedy. Threats, cajolery, and opera bouffe tactics having failed, she will prove her sincerity by tickling the Allies into good humor and assuring the world of her childlike simplicity. Taking French leave of a German prison is drollery itself. And the notion of a reward should bring a roar of laughter from those who know Germany's financial state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine...
...change, notwithstanding what is said to the contrary. Just now there is a shock being endured by some minds because of the post-mortem honors being shown to Tom Slaughter, confirmed criminal and cold-blooded man-killer, who was assassinated by one of his own class after escaping from prison in the most romantic style imaginable...
Ford died tragically, and the public expressed its satisfaction wildly, James's brother Frank succeeded to his laurels. The Governor of Missouri opened the doors of the prison where he was serving a life sentence most deservedly, and the Missouri House of Representatives elected him to be a doorkeeper as its share of official tribute to the heroism of life on the highway. Both were made the central figures of dime novels, eagerly devoured by hundreds of thousands of boyish minds which thereupon became fired to commit murder and robbery and be handed down to posterity as the rivals...
...There is no such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...