I remember the reporting of the "gaolbird" case in "Chess" (Sutton Coldfield, sufficient address).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friends Institute, Birmingham, and some chess and political memories] Reference

In a letter to a Mr Golding, Mr Wood had indicated that if Mr Morry was in the new Welsh Chess Union, Mr Wood was out; he referred to Mr Morry as “this ex-gaolbird”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friends Institute, Birmingham, and some chess and political memories] Reference

'Tis a runaway gaolbird by the look of him for whom we have no sort of use here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fool Errant] Reference

François of Corbeuil, Count of Montcorbier, stood in a very different relation to the Lady Katherine from that of the lowly poet and gaolbird who had rhymed and sighed and battled in the Fircone.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Were King] Reference

It is just the same with the passengers: here is a gaolbird accommodated with a seat next the captain and treated with reverence, there a debauchee or parricide or temple-robber in honourable possession of the best place, while crowds of respectable people are packed together in a corner and hustled by their real inferiors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference