Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sullen since the death of three comrades who tried to escape (TIME, March 2), angered with the news that another prisoner had died while shackled in solitary confinement, 1,100 convicts at Joliet (Ill.) State Penitentiary dashed their food to the floor and rioted in the mess hall one noon last week. Guards drove most of them into the prison yard, fired at their feet with shotguns. Another group isolated itself in the kitchens, was later subdued. Within an hour all were herded back to their cells. Casualties: one prisoner killed; one guard and three convicts wounded. The Joliet penitentiary...
...detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
Unlucky Ismael was one of a group of 28 dervishes, sheiks and others arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
...maligners of the good name of our own fair land stand refuted, now gangsterism will dissolve before the might of an outraged nation. The law has demonstrated its majesty, the alleged murderer stands convicted. Charge--contempt of court. Sentence--six months in prison. Present status of the prisoner--out on ball until his appeal comes...
...peculiar to the stage and has adapted the plot with considerable skill to the rapidity and scope of the screen. He has not allowed himself to be confined by the picture frame of a theatre, but instead has incorporated into the sound and film the whole large scene of prison life...