Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with authority and his drinking habits as a Freshman. Alling managed to graduate number three in the class of 1679. Thomas Barnard, another Freshman, was one behind him as number four in the same class, while the third Harvard man, Thomas Cheever, a Junior at the time of his arrest, held first place when he graduated...
...Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last year to the defendants, Natchez this...
...lynching of Negro George Armwood. 28, for raping Mrs. Mary Denston, 71. by a mob in Princess Anne, Md. (TIME, Oct. 30): refusal by Somerset County State's Attorney John B. Robins to arrest nine members of the lynching mob identified by eyewitnesses, at the request of Maryland's Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr. who said he "even drew maps showing what they did and where they were." Reason for the refusal: "I don't believe those men would stay in jail. I believe a crowd would form and take them away...
...arrest of plump "Baron" Oscar Merrill Hartzell, who collected nearly $1,300,000 in 13 years from gullible Mid-western aspirants to the non-existent $22,000,000,000 estate of Sir Francis Drake, famed Elizabethan mariner (TIME. Jan. 23, Feb. 27): conviction on a charge of using the mails to defraud, sentence of ten years in jail, fine of $2.000; in Sioux City, Iowa...
...arrest of burly Andre Spada. notorious Corsican brigand (TIME. June 12): decision by authorities to hospitalize him for mental examination after he spent two weeks knitting socks, explained that it helps him communicate with...