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...soon as the losses were reported the entire body of the Yard Police were mobilized and several men were posted at every gate with instructions to apprehend any suspicious persons. No arrests have been reported, however, and the workers seem to have made their getaways after breaking into Kirkland and Adams House the following night...
...Princess Anne. Md., State militia were ordered out by Governor Ritchie to apprehend the lynchers of George Armwood who was hanged last month after raping an old white woman. They seized four suspects, placed them in the guard room of the armory at Salisbury. When a crowd of 400 angry citizens gathered outside the armory to protest the arrest, cry for the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, militiamen threw tear...
...suppression of flagrant, fundamental crime is an important part of the New Deal. . . . What have I to say by way of practical suggestion? Apprehend the kidnappers, catch the racketeers and this reign of terrorism will cease. How? Federalize the police forces of America! Every U. S. marshal, every State and county prosecuting attorney, every sheriff and his deputy, every State police officer would hold a commission from the Federal Government and be a unit under one directing head. . . . The militia of every State stands behind this federalized force. It would be essential that the direction of this plan be centralized...
...main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes...
...this ne'er-do-well to recover a check from the blackmailers and Erwin does it with such a comical combination of timidity and guile that it is the funniest sequence in the picture. Meanwhile, detectives who have been studying the misdeeds of the dead twin come to apprehend the live one. A motor boat chase (with sirens, which are probably the most important single contribution of sound to the cinema) serves to drench the protagonists and clear up their misconceptions...