Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship docks first at Boston where Sam Insull Jr. may meet him; 2) be carried off to Chicago; 3) probably be released on bail; 4) face trial on Federal charges of bankruptcy act violations and using the mails to defraud; 5) may be sentenced to 50 years in prison. 6) After the Federal Government gets through with him, he may also have to stand trial on Illinois charges of larceny and embezzlement...
Henri Rochette was sentenced to two years in prison, which he never served, fleeing to Mexico instead. During the War he turned up in the Verdun trenches, fighting under an assumed name. Later he appeared as a character in the Oustric bank failure. Last month French justice, smarting under charges of laxity in the Stavisky affair, hauled him into court, sentenced him again on his ancient swindle charge. In 15 years Henri Rochette has lost most of his spirit; he wanted only to be left alone. He lost his appeal last week. The original sentence of two years in jail...
...Russel Allen, to whose generosity many of the most interesting exhibits are due. The kinship of these wood-engravings to Daumier's better-known lithographs is apparent from the row of prints placed above the case. The magnificent "Rue Transonian" is flanked by the "Souvenir de Saint-Pelagic," the prison where Daumier was confined for his political caricatures. This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities...
...escape the grey monotony of their confinement for crime, the artists, almost to a man, painted outdoor scenes, portraits, religious subjects in loud clashing colors. Only a handful busied themselves with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell...
Aside from a lavish use of color the rest of the pictures from prisons had little in common. Many were copied from postcards, magazine covers, old masters. The best had a primitive quality. Work from New York's Clinton Prison at Dannemora, where are housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks...