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Charles T. Davis of Brooklyn, "World's Richest Convict," finished an eight-year sentence for murder at Dannemora Prison (Clinton, N. Y.). With $1,250,000 in travelers' checks, he left in a private car for California. During his imprisonment, caused by his killing a detective, his surgical supply business was sold for $2,500,000, part of which was turned over to his wife, from whom he has separated...
...Marquette, Mich., one John D. Rockefeller was sentenced to from 7-7 to 20 years in prison for armed robbery...
...other affair was caused by the curiosity of Pilot Cy Bittner, flying west from Albany to Buffalo with an empty mail-ship on the Colonial Western route. He deviated from his route to circle twice over Auburn prison on a clear night last week. Below him, 'tremendous excitement . prevailed. The whole town, citizens, State Police, prison guards, still tense from a frightful, abortive prison rebellion last year (TIME, Aug. 5), believed that some powerful gang was attempting to drop firearms within the prison yard to incite another riot. Machine guns and rifles were turned on the plane...
Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score...
Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...