Word: prisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four days last week Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, No. 1 Gangster of the U. S., disappeared following his secret release from Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison (TIME, March 24). Behind he left an enormous news vacuum into which rushed loose-tongued Rumor. Where was Al Capone...
...Hanau went to jail after her subscribers had lost 120,000,000 francs ($4,800,000) in the securities she recommended and sold (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...
Some 45 minutes later, tottering with weakness but still resolute, Mme Hanau entered the office of the warden of St. Lazare prison from which she had been removed. "I demand to be imprisoned here," she cried, still formidable. She had escaped from the hospital by climbing down a rope of bedclothes. Nothing had prevented her from attempting to escape completely...
...George W. Peck, in whose Milwaukee Sun the chronicles first appeared. In apology. Humorist Peck said of his Boy: "But he shuffles through life until the time comes for him to make his mark in the world. . . . Then those who said he would bring up in State Prison, remember that he always was a mighty smart...
Last week came news of the smart lads of another Peck who really had landed in a State prison. They were the shamefaced inmates of Connecticut School for Boys (reformatory at Meriden) where James S. Peck is farm superintendent. Bad boys under 16 are confined under the thin pretense of a boarding school regime. Connecticut Schoolboys are not discharged but "graduated...