Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Specialist. In Los Angeles, Raymond Bobbitt was arrested by Detective Elva Bartlett for stealing a box of chocolates in the Thrifty Drug Store, was sent to prison, served 18 months, got out, was presently arrested by Detective Elva Bartlett for stealing a box of chocolates in the Thrifty Drug Store...
Lucky 13. In Goldsboro, N.C., Brantley Rose was sentenced to 13 years in prison, managed to get one year knocked off when he protested that he was superstitious...
...with his hands clasped behind him, the jury pronounced him guilty. Louise Best threw an arm around her brother's shoulder. "Don't worry about me, madame," he said. "You are now the sister of a convict." His sentence could be as low as five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, or as high as death...
Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single...
...entirely. In mock despair she frankly told friends that her children were dolts, once complimented Anne with: "That's right, lovey-dove, you seem a shade less stupid than your sisters." Stupid or not, they all wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine...