Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provincial churches of Bavaria and Württemberg. Though 95% of Württem-berg's clergy had voted to support their anti-Nazi Bishop Theophil Wurm, the Nazi whip cracked early last week and Bishop Wurm, suspended last month, was permanently removed from office, placed under arrest in his home. That left only Bavaria and its Bishop Hans Meisser outside the fold...
Noon of the day of the scheduled sermon secret police and blackcoated S. S. Troopers suddenly piled into the residence of Bishop Meisser. He was placed under arrest, forbidden to leave his house, told that he had been removed as head of his diocese. Remembering lessons learned in last June's "blood purge," the S. S. Troopers were careful to offer no threats to the Bishop's person, to give him complete liberty within the building. Bishop Hans Meisser puttered quietly up & downstairs all afternoon...
...years Corsican-born Police Inspector Paul Mariani ruled the underworld of the northern manufacturing city of Lille in a manner that can only be compared to Broadway's Tenderloin in the days of the notorious Police Lieutenant Becker. Fortnight ago he was arrested on a simple charge, but quickly the accusations mounted: Mariani and his gang of Corsican relatives ran a secret printing press in Paris for forging automobile licenses. They operated a number of fences for stolen goods. They were embroiled in white slavery and drug peddling. Then came the first suspicion of murder. One of Mariani's dope...
First they presented her with a fat, leather-bound book bulging with press comments on her resignation. Then one of them clapped a hand on her shoulder and solemnly announced: "You're under arrest." In silence she was led up to one of the tables, cleared of everybody save a judge. The charge against Miss Abbott: deserting 43,000,000 U. S. children. One by one her workers took the stand to give testimony. Attorney for Defendant Abbott offered in evidence the fact that her name was not listed in 500 Delinquent Women (TIME, Oct. 1). By unanimous vote...
More than a week before Hauptmann's arrest, every reporter at New York Police headquarters knew the Lindbergh case was "red hot" in the Yorkville section of the city. To safeguard the confidence, they did not even notify their offices...