Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire trained force of railroad police will cooperate with the uniformed authorities in preventing any attempted interference with the proper and speedy operation of the special trains. The arrest in New Haven yesterday of a man said to be the inciter of a plot to cripple the football train service may be taken as a warning that the New Haven Road will tolerate no attempt on the part of striking shopmen or others to interfere with its service...
...Moulton referred to the arrest in New Haven Thursday of Ernest Schleifer, of Watertown, N. Y., on a charge of inciting striking shopmen to commit felonies. He was held in a bond of $15,000 for a hearing in the City Court today...
...different is the situation in Boston. Years ago the heavy losses sustained by the Boston Elevated Railway necessitated the ten-cent fare; and the police arrest crooks in every part of the city. At least one policeman guards the Square every night; and there are inspectors at every subway entrance. One opportunity for ingenuity still remains; there are no slug detectors on the pay telephones; and some times one only needs to kick them...
Nonetheless, the advantages will be tremendous. Thieves who desire to be immune from arrest need only array themselves as bearded assemblymen to pass unchallenged through the whole police force; poor factions--unable to support a lobby--may disguise themselves as representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...
...shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have rudely interfered with his further steps toward reclamation. Six of his partners in public service, nabbed by the police, have consonant records. Thus one whose career began in 1917 with arrest for burglary, sentence for which was mercifully suspended, was arrested...