Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest one "Stew"' Donnelly, onetime Florida confidence man, when he emerges from prison in France, two New York detectives shipped on S. S. Aqnitania for Cherbourg. Reason: Donnelly is believed to be the first underworking on whom has been found money bearing the serial numbers of the Lindbergh ransom money...
...five days he enjoyed some hope. Then word came that before going fishing fortnight ago President Roosevelt signed a warrant for Insull's arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...
Inspector Als turned on them sternly: "I will arrest you if necessary for interfering with a government official in performance of his duty. The penalty is five years in the penitentiary...
Meantime diplomats were buzzing in Washington, in Athens and in Ankara on the bare uplands of Asia Minor. U. S. Ambassador Skinner was pressing a request that the Turks arrest Mr. Insull under Article IX of the Turkish penal code permitting the detention of foreigners accused in their countries of crimes not of a political or military nature. A cablegram was delivered from Greek Foreign Minister Maximos protesting the detention of the Maiotis. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Bey and confrères considered: Should they oblige the U. S. or should they offend Greece? It was not a difficult question...
...seemed last week that Finland, too, had scratched a U. S. citizen and found a spy. But Arvid Werner Jacobson. 27, onetime teacher in the Northville (Mich.) high school, had adopted a different technique from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...