Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Daudet, editor of the Parisian Royalist newspaper L'Action Française, escaped last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow me to go to prison. Let the Prosecutor General dare to try to arrest me! He is mistaken if he believes, as he says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances or my fancy dictate. Tell that to the Prosecutor General...
Meanwhile M. le Président Gaston Doumergue of France received hundreds of appeals to pardon M. Daudet. The government was reputedly much inclined to this step; and no attempt whatever was made by the police last week to arrest Editor Daudet, who dined sumptuously on all manner of delicacies sent him by Parisians who admire his flashing spirit, consider him at worst harmless, at best a priceless "character...
Reporters who interviewed M. Daudet some 29 hours after his arrest should have taken place found him genial but defiant...
...heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...