Word: jails
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...discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
...22?Harry Ford Sinclair leaves jail...
...newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers the next day secured their release on a writ of habeas corpus from Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons...
...Merrill, Wis., one John Aho sits in county-jail making birdhouses out of condemned slot-machines...
Borne off to jail, straight-jacketed, he told the wardens he was a millionaire, would pay them vast sums for his freedom...