Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Boris Savinkov, the Terrible, ended his life by jumping from the window of his prison cell in the State Political Department...
Peter Zadgorsky, sacristan of Sveti Kral, for accepting a Communist bribe to permit the plotters to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral. Prison execution...
...obviously a ringleader and his confederate, must have grown tired of twirling their sombreros on a moving picture set, and rushed forth to prove that the West is still a place where the male population is as advertised. Some reports describe the men as escaped convicts from San Quentin Prison, but nobody will believe that. They quite plainly are re-incarnations of the spirit of the James boys, who have set out to recoup their fortunes in the only time-honored and accepted Western method. Easterners travelling in the West have long been under the impression that the only custodians...
...Copley Players yesterday afternoon gave a benefit performance of "Three Live Ghosts", the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the purchase of instruments for the Charleston State Prison band. The suit which Mr. E. E. Clive were in the part of Jimmy Gubbins was intended for a loose misfit, but such has been the change in style in masculine attire since the first production of the play that the balloon trousers and baggy coat would have made him feel at home in any college yard. But if Mr. Clive's costume was not convincing, his acting...
...lower house of the Missouri Legislature, last week, passed by vote of 101 to 15 a bill providing that person convicted of robbery in the first degree be sentenced, at the discretion of th trial judge, to hang, to life imprisonment or to a prison sentence of not less than 20 years. The author of the bill Representative Henry, in urging its passage, said : "People are afraid to go to Kansas City, St. Louis and other cities for fear of the robbers and armed thugs...