Word: jails
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...chars for her living and fills her four children's bellies with vegetables from their scrawny "garden." Her "old man" was killed while working on the railroad. Nearby lives the Klementovich family. Mother Klementovich is virtually a widow; her "old man" is serving a two-year term in jail for beating her. She works in the factory, tends chickens, takes in a boarder. There are four little Klementoviches...
Utterly unprepared was the U. S. to impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar...
...Kutais we were arrested as British spies for taking photographs and spent two hours in jail. That night we slept on the floor of a schoolhouse. We only had five blankets. Mabel had one, the Armenian guide had one, and I had three. It was hard on Mabel...
Sudden arrest, a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months was the punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health...