Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal Judge Fred L. Wham requested, last week, that Sheriff Sam Good of Ogle County, Ill., appear before him. Sheriff Good was charged with allowing one Barney Kessel, convicted Chicago easyspeaker, to be absent from jail on 40 occasions during a 60-day sentence...
...talked to the Sheriff on long distance and asked $275 for hanging Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher. The Sheriff thought that was too much money. But he finally agreed...
...About 2 p.m. Saturday Sheriff Pecot called me on the telephone and said Gov. Long had reprieved the prisoners, and that the hanging...
...Later Sheriff Pecot sent me enough money to pay my railroad fare both ways. But I've raised my price. If I am to hang Mrs. Leboeuf and Dr. Dreher next Saturday, or any other time, I must get $550 and expenses at Franklin...
...Dresden Opera Tini Rossler served her apprenticeship with promise of success. But then she married Ernst Heink and a burden of debts, lost her job. Then came four children, dark days. Heink deserted her. The sheriff took everything but a bed, three chairs, a stove, the children. Finally they had to be sent to her parents. Then came engagements in Berlin, Hamburg. A temperamental contralto balked and Heink got big roles, made them bigger. She married Paul Schumann, an actor. Together in 1898 they came to the U. S. In Chicago a month before another baby, she made her debut...