Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then taken his wife searching for him, killed Mrs. Littlefield when she grew suspicious, cruised through six States for three days with his gruesome cargo. After changing the details of this narrative four times, Paul Dwyer was convicted of murder, sent for life to Maine's State Prison at Thomaston. Last week Convict Dwyer was back in court with a sixth version of the murders, by far the strangest, most horrible...
...afternoon, Democratic Speaker George Schroeder of Michigan's House of Representatives spent five sociable hours at the home of the manager of Michigan's State prison farm. Guest of honor was Convict No. 39359, State Senator Anthony J. Wilkowski. Reason: Mr. Schroeder would like to be Lieutenant Governor, needs the Polish votes controlled by Convict Wilkowski, who is serving four to five years for fraudulent vote counting...
...troopers of the Royal Horse Guards to see "the horse with the green tail" in their stables. Inside, two troopers raped her while others held her. Arrested and brought to trial month ago, two troopers were given sentences of four years each, a third sentenced to 22 months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl...
That Dixie Davis was not only leaving prison regularly to dally with a doxie, but doing so with the connivance of two Manhattan detectives, who, supposedly, were by court order taking him to have his tonsils treated, was the substance of the week's biggest scoop, scored by the New York Mirror (Hearst). Free-Lance Correspondent Robert Chulsky, 21, an employe in a building near where Hope Dare lived, tipped off the Mirror and Photographer Smooke. Day after the Mirror story broke, to the acute embarrassment of District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, other dailies picked it up. New York...
...defeat of a magnificent criminal ego. Whimsical, moody, brutal Pepe le Moko, a jewel thief from Paris, is safe as a fugitive just so long as he stays in the Casbah. Knowing this, patient Policeman Slimane baits him with the thesis that the Casbah itself is his prison, then calmly watches and waits while this disturbing seed takes root. The lure to break prison comes in the shape of an incredibly beautiful woman. When Pepe accepts this fatal gambit, Slimane is strangely sad. The game is too soon, too unexpectedly, over...