Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been lying low since the bloody Auburn Prison riot of 1929 in which he was one of two prisoners to escape. He had been posing as a windshield-wiper salesman. In his sample case was found another gun. Up to 1929, Arthur Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring...
Aside from the epistemological photography of which Clair is a master, the swaggering, lilting, scurrying action of the plot perambulates the great problem of Society in the Machine Age. The prison and the factory, could any one mistake that parallel? Yet this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is taken seriously but the friendship of Louis and Emile, whose adventures in gently inept romance and business melodrama, respectively, run hilariously together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair...
...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
Having listened to testimony for two the jury took less than three hours reaching a verdict: Captain Courson, guilty of manslaughter, which carries a sentence of from one to 20 years in prison; Solomon Higginbotham, not guilty...
...Paris, a group of French stamp collectors posted an offer of one million francs ($40,000). for an envelope that held a message to U. S. citizens signed by George Washington and was the sole cargo of an experimental balloon flight on Jan. 9, 1793 from a Philadelphia prison courtyard to Woodbury, N. J. where Balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard delivered it to Woodbury's Mayor. The letter, of which the whereabouts are unknown, is called the "first letter ever sent by air mail...