Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the third conviction for the ex-Secretary of the Communist Party in recent years and his ninth arrest since he entered the revolutionary movement a dozen years ago. During the war he was found guilty of obstructing the draft and sent to an Ohio workhouse. After the war, he was convicted of writing the notorious "left wing" manifesto which split the regular Socialist Party and led to the birth of insurrectionary Communism in America. He was sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison and served 18 months before the Appellate Court reversed the decision and released...
...traveling court set up on an automobile is now visiting markets in Berlin to punish profiteers. Plain clothes policemen patrol the market place, and on finding that an excessive price has been charged, or on hearing any complaint they immediately arrest the offending dealer and take him before the court. Justice is meted out on the spot, and the result is that prices have been considerably reduced. The city officials hope that these courts will end the food riots which have resulted from the exorbitant demands made by the merchants...
...they may be called upon to pay part of the occupation costs. The Fight. Resistance, threats and violence are the order of the day. A requisitioning expedition by the French at Essen ended in a casualty list of 9 killed and 26 wounded. A large number of Germans were arrested and some were deported; the most important case being the arrest of four Krupp directors on the charge of stirring the workers to resist the troops. General Degoutte threatened to expel all railway officials and workers unless they return to work. Hotels and stores in Bochum, forcibly closed...
UTAH: The arrest and detention of two Piute Indian sheep stealers was enough to send the whole tribe of 50 or 60 Indians on the warpath. They cut the telephone and telegraph wires to the town of Blanding and did some sniping without wounding any one. When a posse set out after them, they hid in the " Dark Tank " country. Two young Indians are reported killed, one of them known as Cowberry Charlie's boy. A reward of $100 is offered for the capture, dead or alive, of Chief Old Posey, head of the Piutes...
...Eamon de Valera, President of the " Republic," narrowly escaped arrest at the hands of Free State soldiers. It is stated that so close was he to being taken that he left several important documents behind...