Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan citizens were last week waiting to see if U. S. agents would attempt to arrest their Governor, Fred Warren Green. And if they did, would Governor Green, as he had promised, "throw them out of the State?" And, if all that did happen, was it civil...
Alarmed at such defiance, the Radio Commission called on the Department of Justice. Its agents in Michigan were instructed to "arrest the proper persons"-meaning Governor Green-if the State should start to put up its radio station...
This threat of arrest riled Governor Green even more. Warned he: "Let 'em try to arrest us! We'll do some arresting ourselves ! If they come here interfering we'll throw 'em out of the State...
...that he had sailed for Florida on the Merchants & Miners liner Dorchester. The New York Sun said he had been smuggled in a pie wagon to West New York. N. J. Florida's Governor Doyle Carlton heard he was en route to Florida, ordered all state sheriffs to arrest him on sight. Dry agents raided the Capone estate at Palm Island, off Miami, arrested six men but not its absent owner. In Chicago Detective Chief John Stege announced Capone was flying to his Prairie Avenue home...
...walked into Chicago police headquarters. One hand was bandaged; he said he had burned it taking a roast of beef from an oven. Blandly he asked if he was "wanted" Chief Stege told him emphatically he was NOT wanted in Chicago, ordered him to get out, threatened him with arrest on sight "like any common hoodlum.'' Capone, distressed, insisted he had legal rights "like any other citizen." At the Hotel Lexington he opened "business headquarters." At 3 a.m. a reporter for the London Daily Express called him on the transoceanic telephone for an interview but central could...