Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was in 1787, when Philadelphia convicts were commonly chained to barrows, forced to work in the streets. The Episcopal Church of Bishop White, the Lutheran Ministerium of Dr. Rogers and the Society of Friends joined in founding the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, dedicated to the then radical proposal that "such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow citizens to virtue and happiness." Once admitted to work in prisons, the Society flourished, changed its name...
Claiming to be the oldest prison reform group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...
Last week Lawyer Brannely learned of the incident, moved for a new trial on the basis of an 1855 California ruling in the case of People v. Kohler that "the prisoner, in case of a felony, must be present during the whole of his trial." Judge Lemmon ruled that this prisoner had been absent only momentarily and the law cited was not applicable. Then he sentenced Roy Widener to an indeterminate term of five years to life in San Quentin Prison...
...Nancy Steele is Missing" which stars Victor McLaglen and Walter Connolly is a depressing though well acted picture. Based on the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, the film covers a period of twenty years during which McLaglen, the kidnapper, is sent to prison for a minor crime...
...union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...