Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blonde divorcee, Mrs. Florence Camp, from Los Angeles to Manhattan;-4) stole $151 to move Mrs. Camp's furniture to Cleveland; 5) stole $500 which supposedly was to pay a Bund lawyer; 6) forged Bund records in order to cover his tracks. Maximum penalty: 50 years in prison...
...Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State Board of Prison Terms and Paroles, with a story that Mark Megladdery had taken a $1,250 bribe to wangle a pardon for a murderous San Jose ex-butcher named Clarence Leddy. Judge Megladdery resigned two weeks after his elevation...
...week's end the jury found Mark Megladdery guilty of soliciting and receiving a bribe, let him in for a maximum 19 years in prison. This week he goes to trial for passing bad checks, attempted grand theft. Frank Finley Merriam's chances to be the next Republican Senator from California were quoted at worse than...
...debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair of olive-drab dungarees to replace his double-breasted suit. For the second time in his life Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (as Prisoner 289) wore a uniform-the prison uniform-of the U. S. Army...
Climax of Rose of Washington Square shows Actor Power, melted by My Man, turning himself in to plead guilty to a somewhat foggy charge, take a five-year prison sentence. Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) turned himself in after his wife sang the song, was convicted of conspiracy to carry stolen securities into the District of Columbia, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth. After leaving prison the second time (he had been sent to Sing Sing for a securities deal in 1912), dapper Jules W. Arndt Stein tried the advertising business in Manhattan, was divorced, remarried, ended...