Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then advanced to the power plant, well-nigh destroyed it. Police forces of the neighboring towns arrived, but could do nothing. Many policemen were caught, locked up in the local prison. Their lives were spared only by the supplications of three clergymen. Mob rule set in. Stores were plundered. Thousands of dollars of damage was done...
...been tipped off and, shadowing them, had heard them plotting to kidnap for $100,000 ransom first Mary Pickford, then Pola Negri, Buster Keaton and a four-year-old grandson of Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate. The story came with apparent veracity of circumstance. One or more of the prisoners was reported to have confessed; they faced long prison terms for criminal conspiracy...
...shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz, unrepentant, felt 1,700 volts of electricity pass through his body at Auburn prison...
...Hamilton Fish Jr. suggested that the Logan Act be applied to silence the speakers. The Logan Act penalizes persons for making plans with Foreign Governments "to defeat the measures of the Government of the U. S."-in dollars up to $5,000 and in years up to three in prison...
...Promised that, if any evidence of grain price manipulation were uncovered, he would prosecute to the limit, according to the Grain Futures Act ($10,000 fine and one year in prison...