Word: jails
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...Jails keep prisoners in and prisoners' enemies out. Last week Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, once Chicago's No. 1 under-worldling, now a hunted exile "on the spot," went behind the bars of Philadelphia's Moyamensing jail for a year's "stretch." Philadelphia and Chicago officials were sure that Capone had deliberately taken refuge in prison, where the only bullets he would have to worry about would come from the guards' rifles...
Riots and bloodshed ensued. Tear bombs were hurled. Several hundred strikers were arrested at once and herded, shouting and cursing, into the Carter County Courthouse auditorium. The tiny jail was full. No sooner did law officers release some of the prisoners, than others were brought in. Elizabethton's 16-inch water conduit was dynamited three miles out of town. Schools closed. Trucks trundled to Johnson City, eleven miles away, for drinking water. Homes of strikers and strikebreakers were dynamited, barns burned...
...Manhattan, Dr. Joseph Thoms called on a Chinese patient, Tom Yin, asked for a fee. Tom Yin shot him five times, poured scalding water on his head, fled. Dr. Thoms is in a hospital, Tom Yin in jail...
Harry Ford Sinclair, re-elected board chairman was not present on account of being in jail (TIME...
...Washington jail, Oilman Harry Sinclair had hoped to hear the Preakness results over the prison radio (see p. 12). But the radio would not work. He had to wait for the newspapers. When he read them he discovered that one of his horses, Patroness, had won a preliminary race...