Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cash: $2.50. After 3½ years in federal prison for mail fraud, Ponzi tried to launch a "200% profit" Florida land swindle. Then Massachusetts clapped him into jail again for his original thefts. When he got out the second time, in 1934, Ponzi was deported to Italy, which he had left with "$2.50 in cash and $1,000,000 in hopes...
...years in prison, Godbey bided his time. Released for good behavior, he headed for Oklahoma City. In the law offices of Richardson, Shartel, Cochran & Pruet, he found his man, now a prosperous oil lawyer. Godbey spotted him in the hall, blurted out, "I have a divorce case." For a minute, Lawyer Pruet eyed the stooped, grey-haired stranger. Then he turned away, muttering "Wait a minute." Godbey drew a .38 and shot Pruet in the back twice, walked out of the office and vanished into the late afternoon crowd...
Died. Mrs. Flora Drummond, 70, militant British suffragette who served nine prison sentences during her campaign to get votes for women; in Carradale, Scotland. "General" Drummond led showy demonstrations while mounted on a white horse, once chained herself in front of 10 Downing St., once tried to wrap up two of her colleagues and mail them by parcel post to the Prime Minister...
Died. Joseph Wright Harriman,*81, Manhattan banker (Harriman National Bank & Trust Co.) who, after his bank failed in 1933, served a two-year prison sentence for misapplying funds; in Sea Cliff...
...former Air Force lieutenant, pleaded guilty of treason during World War II. In 1944 Monti stole a P-38 fighter in Naples, flew to German-held Milan, surrendered and agreed to make radio broadcasts for the enemy. A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced him to 25 years in prison...