Word: jails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Promptly arrested and sentenced for this crime, they were still in jail last week ?and Scotland's eye was on the House of Commons. In its boxlike wooden hall arose a Scotsman from the banks of Clyde, John McGovern. "The sentence on those four lay preachers," cried he, white-lipped, "was cowardly and brutal!" Turning upon William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. McGovern said: "I demand that the Government act to set these preachers free." Put off with an assurance that the Government was "investigating," Clydesider McGovern would not subside or sit down. "I demand Justice...
...shouted Deputy Jacques Stern, a Paris banker of some prominence. "Yes, but a director of the Royal Mail is going to be sent to jail! How did the French Line get into such trouble? Mismanagement...
...Master of German Freemasons, knew in 1911 that the Serbs planned to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (nominal cause of the Great War) and took no steps to prevent it, eccentric General Erich Ludendorff was given a choice of paying 500 marks in fine or spending ten days in jail, by a court at Gotha, Germany...
...Nichols, Flyer Chamberlin had taken his Crescent monoplane to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, hung out a sign coaxing joy-hoppers to "fly with a pilot who flew the Atlantic," promising an autograph on every ticket. Immediately Roosevelt Flying Corp. hired Roger Q. Williams, just released from "alimony" jail, made him pilot of one of their Fairchilds at the same field, hawked his trans-atlantic fame in competition to Chamberlin...
News of another strange medicament last week came from White Plains, N. Y. For ten years John M. Hill, warden of the Westchester County Jail at White Plains, kept a white-feathered Japanese silky rooster, a long-tailed fowl with a bluish skin, rare in the U. S. (current value $100). The rooster's name was Murphy. He disliked women, would peck at their legs, would win poultry show prizes...