They kept this up for some time, till finally most of the gang were caught, tried, convicted, and sent to the penitentiary for a number of years.

"You will find yourself earning two hundred dollars for the state in the penitentiary of your native city if you persist in that course.

GENTLEMEN: I transmit herewith the annual report of the inspectors of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, and beg leave to recommend the propriety of providing by law a reasonable compensation for the service of those officers.

If the Huns are going to be driven to the Rhine we ought to be doing our duty by Uncle Sam; which we couldn't if shut up in the Government penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, awaiting trial as deserters.

Similarly draw a line from the map position of penitentiary toward its actual position.

It fills jails and penitentiaries with victims, and hospitals and asylums with the injured and hopelessly wrecked.

The conspiracy statute which is used today is a deliberate scheme on the part of prosecutors to get men into the penitentiary by charging an agreement or confederation of two or more persons to do something, which, if really committed, would be a misdemeanor, or no crime whatever.

No, I think I would just put him out of the way of doing further harm, in some distant penitentiary like the Devil's Island, and leave him to himself to think it all over; as Caponsacchi said of Guido in 'The Ring and the Book': Not to die so much as slide out of life, Pushed by the general horror and common hate Low, lowerleft o' the very edge of things.

So Doc rattled about from penitentiary to prison and from prison to madhouse and out again, constantly taking appeals and securing writs of habeas corpus, and feeling mildly resentful, but not particularly so, that people should be so interfering with his business.