Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little county seat court of Angleton, Tex., big, fatherly Judge M. S. Munson had on his hands three trials growing out of a murder of a convict by three fellow-convicts within the nearby State Prison Farm. At the outset of the trial of the first prisoner Judge Munson told reporters from the Houston Post, the Houston Press and the Houston Chronicle that they could sit in the courtroom but that their papers must not print any news about the three trials until all were over, on pain of a citation for contempt of court. "These cases are all tried...
...Simon Baruch (1840-1921), German-born Jew of Spanish ancestry, graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, was an assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. While in a Federal war prison he wrote a book on gunshot wounds. Excited by the hydrotherapeutic cures of Vienna's Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Dr. Baruch dived into the subject, wrote two text books, got the first U. S. municipal bath houses established in Manhattan in 1901, was hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled...
...best-known U. S. private detective (specialty : jewel retrieving); of perjury in testifying before a Federal Grand Jury concerning his part in returning $185,000 worth of jewels stolen in Miami Beach from Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell (TIME, June 10); in Manhattan. Maximum possible sentence: 15 years in prison, $6,000 fine...
This dual aim to inform readers solemnly on the problem of crime & punishment, and at the same time raise their hair with tales of gangster grue ran through 100 pages of Prison Life Stories. Director Sanford Bates of the U. S. Bureau of Prisons contributed an earnest description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal...
...tough, blue-eyed, wavy-haired east Texas moppet who grew up when his State was occupied by Yankee troops and hated carpetbaggers, Hardin killed his first man, an ex-slave, when he was 15. In the next nine years he killed approximately 43 more. Sentenced to 25 years in prison, Hardin served 16 before he was pardoned, wrote an autobiography, studied law, practiced in El Paso until he was fatally shot...