Word: jails
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Leaving his concrete bed on the floor of a Pennsylvania jail, a young Californian talked of going home to join his father in an impoverished cleaning business. Said he: "I don't want a lot of money. I'd just like to be a well-to-do, decent business...
...Colonel Luke Lea and his son Luke Jr., Tennessee publishers convicted of conspiracy to defraud an Asheville, N. C. bank, were ordered arrested last week after they failed to surrender to serve jail sentences. Buncombe County courts declared forfeit their $50,000 bonds, written by New Orleans' Union Indemnity Co. (now in receivership). Meanwhile in Nashville, Tenn., the Leas prepared to fight extradition, had a lawyer sleeping in their big house to spike any attempt by North Carolina officials to kidnap them. Few days later the Leas suddenly disappeared. Reports that they had been arrested in the mountains...
...Bolshevik bureaucrat, got in hot water with his colleagues and his government for holding out strongly against intervention. Finally he changed his mind, thus losing the Bolsheviks' confidence without gaining anybody else's. When Lenin was shot the Bolsheviks arrested Lockhart as a spy, held him in jail for a month. Lenin recovered; no evidence was found against Lockhart; he was allowed to leave Russia. He went back to England with a heavy heart, full of sad memories, gloomy forebodings...
...twelvemonth ago George Sumner Nahill won $20,000 in a Loyal Order of Moose lottery. He banked $10,000, bought a $10,000 house. To wife he took Iline Thelma Byrd. All spent last week was George Sumner Nahill's $10,000. His wife divorced him, jailed him for nonsupport, because he refused to sign over his $10,000 house. He signed. Out from jail a free man on his lottery anniversary stepped George Sumner Nahill...
...scrupulous Manhattan jurist, with a Broadway reputation and a wife of his own. They fell in love immediately, and Ann let nothing make any difference. She bore Barney's child, divorced her husband, stood by her man when scandal broke him and sent him to jail, waited for his release, got ready to start all over again with...