Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helena, Mont., having exhausted nearly every other way of getting out of the county jail, Trusty Louis Francis picked up a prison telephone, got a wire to the sheriff, said in a pompous voice, "This is Governor Frank Cooney. You let Louis Francis out now. I just pardoned him." It did not work...
...past four months, stolid Bruno Richard Hauptmann has sat in the death house of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Convicted of murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the German carpenter from The Bronx has busied himself writing his autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann...
Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
Sentenced. Harmon M. Waley, 24, kidnapper of George Weyerhaeuser (TIME, June 17): to 45 years in prison; after pleading guilty at Tacoma, Wash...
...never owed a penny in her life. She does not understand how one comes to incur debts. I am worried because the Duchess is worried. Otherwise, I would not have a single care in the world." In sombre mood last week His Grace was led out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, promptly had himself declared bankrupt once more and vanished from London, his lawyers announcing, "The Duke of Manchester is resting in the country...