Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Miss Sally Bright, a deputy U. S. marshal at Raleigh, had a safe and simple chore to do at North Carolina's Central Prison. She subpoenaed Prisoner No. 34,722 to testify before the Dies Committee in Washington...
Next day Earl Browder was indicted by a Manhattan Federal Grand Jury on two counts, charged with false swearing in 1937-38 passport applications. Maximum penalty on conviction: Five years in prison, $2,000 fine, on each count. Tears of anger and chagrin in his eyes, he pleaded not guilty, was held in $7,500 bail, as the Grand Jury dug into still more evidence of Communist travel habits. Possible was the bagging by Frank Murphy of such Reds as Executive Committeeman Max Bedacht, Publisher Alexander Trachtenberg. And no one could reasonably complain that prosecution for criminal fraud endangers...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 46, serving an eight-year sentence for draft evasion and wartime desertion in an Army prison (Governor's Island in New York Bay); and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 32; their sixth child, a daughter; in Philadelphia, Pa. weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz. Name: Berta...
WASHINGTON--Fred Beal, former Communist party organizer now serving a North Carolina state prison term, today urged the House committee on un-American activities to guard its witnesses against reprisals by party members and the dread. OGPU, Soviet Russian Secret police agency...
With the convict when he set out by automobile for Tattnall State Prison were his wife, his mother and two guards, one of whom the family had hired to watch him in the hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish...