Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January 15, 1922, his Association protested the arrest, asserting that Garvey had been betrayed by his lieutenants...
...siege of the McAlpin by Columbia sophomores, the annual mud-rush at Podunk, and the arrest of a college student for parking too near a fire plug stimulate more frenzied press comment and red-typed leads than the forming of the League of Nations Collegiate Council, the publication of the "Gadfly" and an address by President Eliot together. Naturally, the papers print what their readers want, and the public's interest in college activities is still confined to the lurid incidents which popularly constitute "college life...
Lerner had been engaged by the Soviet Russian Government without pay to erect radios in Kemarova, Russia. He had Communist affiliations. As a known radical it was apparently considered worth while to arrest him first and investigate afterwards. He is the 29th innocent man that the police have "suspected" as responsible for the bomb outrage...
Lerner made no objection to arrest, and proclaimed his innocence, asserting that an investigation will prove that the police have made another mistake and have again arrested the wrong...
...conviction of Wingler resulted from a curious chain of circumstances. The son of a neighbor assaulted one of Wingler's daughters, and Wingler swore out a warrant for his arrest. The assailant fled, but the neighbor countered by reporting to the authorities a confession alleged to have been made to him by Wingler in 1893. The arrest and conviction followed, although a strenuous defence was maintained and although the only explanation the neighbor gave for his sudden revelation was that he had recently got religion...