Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dewy morning two years ago, squat George Remus, onetime 'legger and Federal convict, chased his wife Imogene, who was suing him for divorce, across the grass of a Cincinnati park. He caught her, shot her dead. Tried for murder, he claimed she had plotted his death. He pleaded insanity, was acquitted. A writ of habeas corpus soon freed him from Ohio's State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. "Ohio justice," like "Indiana politics," became a national byword...
Because Paul Bunyan knows no law, it was not surprising that the ceremonies should have been interrupted by one Gunnar Scheftstrom, ex-convict, who held up a Longview merchant, shot him, fled to the forest. Human, he could not escape with Bunyanesque speed. A posse smoked him out in full view of an audience...
From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...
Thus last week did Jesse Harding Pomeroy, long ago killer of little children, get his first view of a modern world. He was being transferred to the State Farm at Bridgewater. Fifty-three continuous years in jail, 41 of them in solitary confinement, Convict Pomeroy has served a longer life term than any other living U. S. prisoner...
...days later the mysterious underworld "grapevine" had carried news of Dannemora's riot to the state prison in Auburn. Unlike Dannemora this institution?with convict self-government and liberal policy?has often been called "the prison without walls." Built to hold 1,350, it was last week overcrowded with 1,818 malcontents. On Sunday the men, numbering 1,700, led by a trusty, walked to the yard for an outing. At the trusty's knock at the "key room," a guard opened the door, was immediately kicked senseless. After shooting another guard, stealing his keys, the convicts seized guns from...