Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody was surprised when one Arthur Maillefort, automobile thief, strangled to death last June chained in a "sweat box" (board casket) in a Florida prison camp. Notorious is Florida's rough penal system, exposed in 1929 by the crusading old New York World...
Next day three of Candidate Foster's sympathizers were still in jail, but the candidate himself, having begun his campaign in the orthodox Communist way with a night in prison, was permitted to depart to begin another campaign speech in Phoenix, Ariz., which has no Red Squad...
...blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood, but not before one of them has annoyed the heroine by locking her in the spider's closet. The prison warden (Frank Shannon) points a suspicious finger at first one person, then another. The Japanese butler makes bright remarks in a Gallic accent. The swamp lad's father is buried in offstage quicksands, thereby purifying the Hollins blood...
...Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed...
...District of Columbia's Supreme Court last week Gaston Bullock Means, national rascal, stood with arms akimbo and a smile on his dimpled face, listening to his third sentence to Federal prison. For duping rich Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby (TIME, May 16), Rascal Means was given ten years imprisonment. For duping her out of $4,000 expense money he got another five years. The terms were...