Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be a mutual agreement," said he, "covering such matters as the treatment of prisoners, the bombing of open towns, and the use of the Red Cross emblem." Il Duce's eyes flashed. "Italy does not admit," he roared, "that she has been carrying on the war other than in the most humanitarian way possible-under the circumstances." Under the startled nose of President Huber the Italian Dictator napped an elaborately illustrated booklet showing the mutilated bodies of Italian road builders caught in a raid last February. "This is how Ethiopia treats her prison ers," thundered Benito Mussolini. "What...
...Stanford University Press, this solution was a ghastly break of circumstantial evidence. They raised a defense fund, printed booklets denouncing the case as justice's greatest miscarriage, laid Mrs. Lamson's death to an accidental fall. After his conviction, Lamson went to the San Quentin Prison condemned row, pounded out his best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire rolls. Resumed, Trial No. 3 lasted two months, ended fortnight...
When this amazing news broke, Governor Hoffman vehemently announced that he had known nothing about the Wendel confession. Day before Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel...
Venezuela's counterpart of the French Bastille is Caracas' vast, dreadful Rotunda Prison, into one of whose small cells there were sometimes crammed as many as 34 shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political prisoner from the Rotunda to a new prison nearby. The Rotunda was opened as a museum piece of past tyrannies. The public was cordially invited to inspect its square quarter-mile of horrors...
...will Nelson left Emma and his daughter as a legacy to his country, but his embarrassed country would have none of them. Though she inherited (from Nelson and Sir William) an income of more than ?2,000 a year, it soon evaporated. She went to prison for debt, finally fled to France to escape her creditors, and died quietly in Calais...