Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, N. J., stands the New Jersey State Prison, isolated from the city by a 22-ft. wall. On top of the wall last week an electric wire needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
Judge Wilkerson was nervous too. In a low voice he ordered Snorkey to stand up. Snorkey clambered to his feet, gulped, swallowed his coughdrop. Slowly, deliberately Judge Wilkerson sentenced him to the limit-17 years in prison, $50,000 in fines. Snorkey hiccuped, regurgitated his coughdrop...
...Keyes, former district attorney of Los Angeles County, was released from San Quentin prison after serving 19 months of a one-to-14 year term. He was convicted of conspiracy to receive a bribe in connection with Julian Petroleum Corp. stock fraud prosecution. Home again in Los Angeles he announced a friend had given him a job selling Fords...
...First time was in 1929 when Capone was tried and convicted in Philadelphia for carrying a pistol. He spent ten months in jail, his only prison term to date. But underworld legend says he went to jail that time on purpose, to avoid being assassinated in Chicago...