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Fifty-six prisoners in the Scioto County jail, Portsmouth, Ohio, were last week guests at a farewell party given by Fellow-Convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Remus Out | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Remus Out | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...people steal, cheat, and kill?" he asked his audience. "Does punishment keep them from doing, these things? So far the world have always been poor," and with wonderful irony, "rich people don't go to jail because they are all good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARROW CONDEMNS OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IN TALK | 4/30/1927 | See Source »

...Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail. His bravado was prodigious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caged Bravo | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Jail (Jack Mulhall). Son (Jack Mulhall) clashes with Father over conduct of the milk business, is thereupon advised to start his own route outside the family circle. Speeding near Lost Angeles lodges him in jail where he meets most of the best people, confined for the same offense. Social opportunities thus afforded give rise to better milk and more of it, provided by Son in competition with a now alarmed as well as irate parent. Father swallows defeat. Son marries the heroine with the family blessing, the while a moderately amused audience guffaws at his clowning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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