Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Mahan, 32, known as a dangerous bank robber, had been paroled after a conviction in 1924, later escaped after serving seven years of a 20-year prison sentence in Boise, Idaho...
...Society was ever sincere in its boasted readiness to rehabilitate a young criminal who wanted to go straight Alabama Pitts certainly seemed in line for such social rehabilitation. His offense had been relatively trivial. He had paid for it by five years in prison. He was now eager to make a fresh start. To that end therefore, he accepted the offer of a $200-per-month job with the Albany Senators, International League baseball team, of which famed Johnny Evers* is general manager. But even before Alabama Pitts left Sing Sing, President William G. Bramham of the National Association...
...grocery store. Three of them received short jail terms The fourth, one Edwin Collins Pitts of Opelika, Ala., had carried a gun. For his first robbery he was sentenced to from eight to 16 years in Sing Sing. Convict Pitts, as "Alabama" Pitts, became a star player on the prison's baseball and football teams. News stories about Sing Sing's games against local teams of semi" professionals, firemen and police made him a U. S. sports celebrity. Last week his term shortened by behavior so exemplary that he had become, besides its most famed athlete, the keeper...
...Sing Sing, Ex-Convict Pitts emerged from prison at 8 o'clock, kissed his mother, who said over the radio she hoped he would get "a fair chance," breakfasted with Warden Lawes and a group of reporters. In Syracuse, where he joined the Albany Senators pending an executive committee hearing to decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner...
...president, music was the most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus, still rehearses it Monday nights and conducts its winter and summer concerts. He has been guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the Philadelphia County Prison Band. Composer of hundreds of choral works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down melodies on sheets of ruled paper he carries in his pocket. He insists that the elevator girls in the store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies...