Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four days last week Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 Gangster of the U. S., disappeared following his secret release from Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison (TIME, March 24). Behind he left an enormous news vacuum into which rushed loose-tongued Rumor. Where was Al Capone...
...Hanau went to jail after her subscribers had lost 120,000,000 francs ($4,800,000) in the securities she recommended and sold (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...
Some 45 minutes later, tottering with weakness but still resolute, Mme Hanau entered the office of the warden of St. Lazare prison from which she had been removed. "I demand to be imprisoned here," she cried, still formidable. She had escaped from the hospital by climbing down a rope of bedclothes. Nothing had prevented her from attempting to escape completely...
...George W. Peck, in whose Milwaukee Sun the chronicles first appeared. In apology. Humorist Peck said of his Boy: "But he shuffles through life until the time comes for him to make his mark in the world. . . . Then those who said he would bring up in State Prison, remember that he always was a mighty smart...
...Ella Blake watched Manhattan crowds going to see The Last Mile, smash hit play based on a document written by her son Robert the week before he was electrocuted in a Texas prison for murder last year. She did not enter the theatre. Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe (TIME, March 17) had sent her Manhattan to claim, royalties on the play...