Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis, who has a record of 30 convictions, was released from State Prison in 1941, where he had served a term for carrying a concealed weapon and possessing burglars tools. Detectives closed in on him Friday after hearing that he had just returned from a hurried out-of-town trip...
...named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole in town...
Call Northside 777. Joe was grateful, but a little bewildered. His wife had divorced him (with his consent) and remarried while he was in prison, and he often went to see her and his 14-year-old son. He worked in various jobs as a sales correspondent, collector and bookkeeper. A movie company paid him a meager $1,000 to make his story into a picture, Call Northside 777 (see CINEMA...
...Idiocy. Frozen-faced Hisakichi Tokuda, the "Mad Doctor" of Shinagawa Prison, had found amusement in injecting soybean protein into the veins of prisoners. One victim had been British Merchant Mariner William Holland. The court heard how Holland's legs had jumped and his mouth foamed in howling idiocy before he died...
...other side of the world last week, some prisoners got tired of waiting. In Nürnberg, Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz, 64, accused of butchering civilians and P.W.s in Poland, threw himself over a prison parapet, fell 30 feet to a tile floor, died of a crushed chest and punctured lungs. Next day, in Paris' Cherche-Midi Prison, General Otto von Stülpnagel, 69, convinced that he would be shot for shooting wartime French hostages, finally succeeded (second try) in hanging himself with strips torn from his bedding and underwear...