Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prison. Show all posts
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Serves 55 Years As Convict

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1920 So What's a Mere Sixty Days to Man With That Record? Frank Hood, 78 years old, heard Judge Hugh R. Stewart of Chicago sentence him ...

Refuses Freedom for Prison Term

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1920 ST PAUL, Minnesota. — Given his choice of freedom or an indeterminate sentence in the State reformatory by Judge Waite in Hennepin Coun...
Friday, April 18, 2008

Jesse Pomeroy Ends 40th Year in Prison

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1916 Notorious Prisoner Longer in "Solitary" Than Any Other "Lifer" in Country. BOSTON, Massachusetts — Jesse Pomeroy, s...
Friday, February 29, 2008

A Solomon and Hypnotism

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1900 A story is told in Collier's Weekly of a judge who lately had the hypnotic plea raised before him by a burglar. The prisoner claim...
Monday, June 25, 2007

A Glimpse of Caracas

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1896 What Correspondent Saw in Venezuela's Capital Comparatively few of the men here ever venture into the street unarmed, writes a Cara...
Monday, June 11, 2007

Lily-White Record is Lost to County

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1920 Along Comes Burglar and Spills the Precious Beans JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — The record of St. Clair County as a lily-white community h...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

An Old-Time Hanging Remembered

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Philadelphia, 1878 Samuel Hulett, whose death at an advanced age was reported a few days ago, was one of the passengers in the mail coach be...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

By God's Judgment — Will Purvis Slipped Through the Noose

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1899 And Accordingly the Man Convicted of Murder Most Cowardly is Let Free by the Executive of the Bayou State — Cannot Be Retried A case of...