Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce,* as the city's greatest Public Enemies. On the strength of this list, the September grand jury, under the foremanship of Vice President Gabriel Flournoy Slaughter of American Steel Foundries, had resurrected an ancient vagrancy law. Judge John H. Lyle then issued vagrancy warrants for the arrest thereunder of notorious gangsters...
Quiet sitters at the back of their Soviet union hall were five women whom Ogpu (Soviet secret police) pounced on last week, arrested. All were charged with falsifying their identity papers, accused of being former nuns masquerading as proletarians. Two of them, whilom Mother Superior Belayeva and Sister Danilova (both of the suppressed Convent of Ekaterinburg), were further accused of being former princesses.- To their homes the Ogpu frog-marched the protesting nuns, ransacked, found 800 silver ruble pieces, 250 rubles in Tsarist gold coins, "a panful of copper coins" and 515 carats of assorted precious stones. In reporting...
...camp (Wishery) was a woman condemned for selling six pairs of silk stockings. Her sister in San Francisco had sent her the stockings. In Vladivostok, where she was living then, a pair of silk stockings would fetch 15 roubles ($7.50) and she was poor. After her arrest, carrying her 3-year-old daughter, she had traveled, largely on foot, some 15,000 mi. to the camp...
...periodic battles with gangs reputed to be led by Angelo ("Little Augie") Pisano, heir to the eminence of the late Frankie Yale (TIME, July 9, 1928). Far out on the westward highways, however, speed Diamond's trucks, delivering beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded...
...onetime election commissioner, by two checks of $200 each. He said: "They were given me ... for legal services which I rendered." ¶ Onetime State Senator George Van Lent, by two vouchers. ¶ The late Sergeant Martin C. Mulvihill, "world's greatest policeman," famed hero of many a dangerous arrest, by a $500 note signed while he was on the police force...