Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of his impudent infidelities knew anything important about his machinations, except that he was a crook. Yet because she had once had possession of the bundle of check stubs which is the most notorious bit of Stavisky evidence to date she was clapped into La Petite Roquette prison last March, and there she has remained, except for a few brief excursions to testify behind locked doors before examining magistrates and parliamentary investigating commissions. Those who caught a fleeting glimpse of her on her way to these sessions were profoundly shocked. Arlette Stavisky has lost every vestige of her good...
Last week the Government relented. That Arlette Stavisky might see her children she was taken from jail in a prison van to a private hospital. There her foot was elaborately bandaged. In a private room she played happily with her little son and daughter". Yes, she said, maman looked thin because she was tired. Papa was still...
Early Sunday morning two barred and guarded railroad cars slipped out of Atlanta, carrying the first load of "incorrigible" criminals to bleak Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay. Newshawks were very sure that at a window of one car they saw the round, grinning face of Gangster Alphonse Capone...
...State's prison today reported the escape of three prisoners and the recapture of two others who got away . . . J. W. Turner got away in Haywood . . . Fred Jones got away in Moore; and James Ezzell got away in Johnston...
...State's prison today reported the escape of one 'honor' prisoner. . . . Joe Rogers got away from the Warren County camp...