Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week three life termers behind the bars of California's San Quentin prison were more downcast than any of their 6,297 neighbors. Under California law, prisoners given indeterminate life sentences may be paroled after serving ten years, provided no other charges are pending against them. The three had just been indicted by the Federal Government for using the mails to extort, were about to be prosecuted for robbing an oil man of $26. Their life terms in theory had thereby become life terms in fact. The trio: James Kirk, brain; Roy Williams and Larry Kerrigan, brawn...
...have before you an Alsatian and a Frenchman who has passed through German schools, through the German army, through a German university and a German prison. Alors, my German education is complete! . . . We don't love the Germans but we have always respected them. We love France, but we want her to be respected. ... In the old days no smoking was allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect...
...observed what 'civilization,' and some men in it, do to girls thrown out into the gutters of a big city; if you knew what little chance they have, how entirely they are at the mercy of the criminals that own them, you would divide any prison term for those girls among the men and seek some way to atone, to those unhappy young women, for the horrible life forced upon them...
...thousand miles away the New York Journal on successive days covered its front page with pictures of: 1) June Robles before the kidnapping; 2) her "coffin prison" in the desert; 3 ) June receiving "a warm kiss from her loving mother"; 4) June examining her school report card. The New York tabloid Mirror ran an interview, headed "TOT TELLS TORTURES." The interview went as follows...
...Sing Sing, when a convict begged for news of his sick baby, prison authorities teletyped a query to Newark police headquarters. A motorcycle policeman sped to the convict's home. Back clicked his report to Sing Sing: "Baby recovering from mild case of measles. In no danger...