Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during some 52 years had failed to exhibit anything in the nature of criminal tendencies. Yet last week it required a pardon from Governor C. C. Young of California to save Charlotte Anita Whitney from an indeterminate sentence of from 1 to 14 years in the San Quentin prison...
...youths who had stood ready to defend Editor Daudet filed out, were allowed to go unarrested. M. Daudet himself rode away with Prefect Chiappe in a limousine. They went first to Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife (who is also his cousin) then motored to the Prison Santé. There Mme. Daudet made arrangements to have her husband supplied with his favorite viands from a neighboring restaurant; and brought him, later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident...
Then last week, came orders from Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent that Mr. Carroll should be removed from hospital to penitentiary, should change from patient to prisoner. While his wife protested against the "inhumanity" to the prisoner, while his brother described the removal order as coming with "brutal suddenness," Mr. Carroll was taken to Atlanta, where an ambulance met his train at the station and took him to the prison...
...also that he saw no reason for referring Mr. Carroll's case to the President (for executive clemency) and that his sentence would begin from the time he entered the jail, not from the time he entered the hospital. So Earl Carroll entered Atlanta, was taken to the prison hospital, became No. 24,909. Despatches said that when he regains his health he will be given the position of bath house orderly...
...Camelots" to defend him,. Editor Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow me to go to prison. Let the Prosecutor General dare to try to arrest me! He is mistaken if he believes, as he says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances...