Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Cuban editors, one a former Congressman, had been arrested by soldiers and lodged in a military prison because they had printed attacks on certain changes in the Cuban Constitution about to be put through by tortoise-bespectacled President Machado...
...last chapter of the book describes a hanging in San Quentin prison. Two of the onlookers, both big men, topple over in a faint while the prison doctor listens to the slowing beat of the hanged man's heart. The prisoner has left a letter for the Warden, protesting his innocence: on the margin he had scrawled: "This is true, so help me God. Just a few minutes...
...always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap's custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals in his charge. Thus, when the play begins, the company includes the paunchy rascal Jonathan Wild, a decadent nobleman calling himself...
...Atlanta, Tom McGee, ex-convict, threw a brick through a store window, stole a shirt, reported to police. He told the judge that while in prison camp he had grown so fond of feeding the hogs that he wanted to go back. The judge acquiesced...
...obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats, a serial dime-novel of syphilis, appearing in Physical Culture. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, $2,000 fine. After he vainly appealed the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Wickersham remitted the prison sentence, but not the fine...