Word: jails
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...prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck and got away. But the confederate croupier was nabbed and served a long, long Monaco jail sentence...
...improbable quandary was deemed suitable for the transformation of Charles ("Buddy") Rogers from a wildly popular juvenile of early talkies into a somewhat hollow-eyed young character actor who does not find forbiddingly incongruous a role in which he is definitely connected with a crime and finally given a jail sentence...
...President Almon Edward Roth of Rotary International; Writer Robert Luther Duffus of the New York Times; Vice President Paul Downing of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic; District Attorney Charles Marron Fickert who helped send Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail...
...Criminal Law, in commenting on the curriculum which was announced yesterday said, "It is high time some institution of learning took this step. We have highly trained and well-paid judges and lawyers. But in the past we have tended to turn the sentenced offender over to a jail whose warden is supposed to see rather that the 'debt to society is paid' than that the offender is corrected...
...stood so long watching a roost of pigeons belonging to a local fancier. He pleaded: "I'm just a hunchback. I never did anything wrong." Turning to show his hump, he dislodged one of the fancier's pigeons concealed under his coat. Walter Lang went to jail for 30 days...