Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison paunchy Convict Al Capone called lean Convict Harmon Waley, kidnapper of little George Weyerhaeuser, a "baby-snatcher." Offended, Convict Waley hit the first U. S. Public Enemy No. 1 on the jaw, knocked him down...
First Black Legionary of note to be arrested after the twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have...
...eleven years Red Ryan was Kingston Penitentiary's model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Prison reform societies hailed him, Premier Richard Bedford Bennett went to see him, emerged deeply moved. Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities...
Since March, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, wild-eyed Fascist son of Spain's former dictator, has languished in Madrid's new model prison charged with inciting insurrection through his blueshirted followers, the Falange Espanola. Last week Blueshirt de Rivera was in court again. Detectives searching his home had found two pistols...
...Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., Burglar Charlie Tortora, faced with a five-year term, fretted about his 18-year-old wife Anna. Burglar Louis Wolf, leaving on parole, promised to take care of her. Arrested last week in Brooklyn and charged with 75 burglaries were Louis Wolf, Anna Tortora...