Word: jails
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...week law officers of Clarendon, Va. telephoned Washington to find out whether the Attorney General wished to prosecute some captured gold hoarders: they had arrested 15 gypsies, found them to have $2,000 in gold. ''No prosecution," decided the Department of Justice, but the gypsies stayed in jail, charged with stealing $7,000 from a woman in Norfolk...
...sixty evenings during the summer when they are playing it rains, but the stage equipment is arranged so that it can be separated from the truck and set up in a hall. At one point on their journey the State Police nearly sentenced them to a month n jail, mistaking th truck and its variegated baggage for gypsy bootleggers...
Bail was set at the sum-enormous for Mallorca-of 10,000 pesetas ($1,175) per prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...
...Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time while being detained in jail, thus saving the honor of the Guardia Civil...
...midnight almost any Midway visitor should have had his fill of the charming Belgian Village, the educational Gorilla Village, the miniscule Midget Village, complete with midget jail, midget court house, midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon...