Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of the celebration, Anacleto shot Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
...Russia's rivers. Comrade Leon Trotsky moved last week from France to Norway, thus putting himself nearer to Communist elements in Russia favorable to the overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei may be tortured into making a statement of some sort tending to incriminate...
...arrest of pure vengeance," declared Mme Trotsky. "Sergei never occupied himself with political questions. . . . The authorities allowed members of our family either to accompany us when we were exiled or to remain in the U. S. S. R. Sergei decided to remain so as not to be torn away from his scientific work. . . . With two other colleagues he published recently a special work entitled Light Gas Generators of Automobile Tractor Type. This book, published by the Scientific Automobile Tractor Institute, was warmly received by the outstanding specialists in the field. ... I will not speak of the methods by which Stalin...
...week to a day after the kidnapped boy's release, a short, brown-haired woman walked into a Salt Lake City 5-&-10? store, made a small purchase. At the cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly checked with the ransom list. The detective made his arrest. Other officers were waiting at the woman's home when her husband appeared a few hours later, with two ransom bills in his pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part in the kidnapping. Suspended sentences or paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year...
...captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo vanished for good. In Buffalo, Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty was threatened with arrest by the local S. P. C. A. if he did not stop "prodding and beating" his circus lions. Said the S. P. C. A. agent: "Lions are the nicest and bravest animals in the world." Retorted Lion-Scarred Beatty: "He is perfectly welcome to come into the cage with...