Word: jails
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With her husband in jail, she prepares all his food which the sons carry to the father. She is an active woman and lionized by Indian Nationalists...
Just after one midnight last week 200 masked men drove up to the Edgecombe County jail in Tarboro, N. C., gained admittance by pretending they brought a prisoner. Silently they drew revolvers, covered the deputy sheriff, brought out Negro Oliver Moore, 35, who was being held for trial in September on a charge of attacking Ethel and Lucile Morgan, white sisters aged...
...Government of India has arrested and imprisoned Gandhi for criminal breeches of law. They now permit him to hold cabinet councils with his fellow conspirators in jail, while the great governing organism, upon whose calm strength the lives and livelihood of uncounted millions depend, wait cap in hand outside the cell door, hoping to wheedle a few kind words out of their prisoner...
...Kings County judge, W. Bernard ("Bernie") Vause had been sentenced to six years in jail for stock-swindling by mail with Columbia Finance Corp., a pseudo-bank into which many poor people put savings...
...Pierson was returning from Nashville to Chicago, someone shot him to death near Scottsburg, Ind., stole his audit report. Arrested for complicity in the murder but free on bail is Dr. B. J. F. Westabrook of Indianapolis, President Williams' bosom friend. Arrested for the murder and still in jail is George Washington, Indianapolis detective.* Sought for extradition from Tennessee as accomplices are Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend, secretary of the Publishing Board, executive committeeman of the Federal Council of Churches, and his son Arthur Melvin Townsend...