Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Asked the New York Evening Post last week: "Is it fair, as the Government did in the Al Capone case, to arrest [Mitchell] for one offense in order to punish him for another?" The New York Police last week broadcast a descriptive circular for the arrest of Racketeer Arthur ("'Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer who also was wanted for violation of Federal Income...
Director Russell pointed with pride last week to the work of four associates. Agents Perrins in London, Anslinger in Washington, Sirks in Rotterdam, Thomas in Berlin. Smooth teamwork among these four gentlemen resulted in the arrest last March of an affable Greek known as Elie Eliopoulos in Mannheim, Germany. M. Eliopoulos was returned to Athens. After five months in a Greek jail, M. Eliopoulos sent word that he would like to talk with Thomas Wentworth Russell, who promptly sent a special officer from Egypt and suggested that a U. S. agent proceed from Paris. Elie Eliopoulos' confession uncovered...
Saluting smartly, Lieut. Baillie-Stewart stepped to the witness stand. By King's Regulations an officer under arrest may wear neither sword nor spurs. As a Highlander Baillie-Stewart had been deprived of his Sam Browne belt. Just as the trial commenced a clergyman sprang up from the back benches waving a Bible and shouting...
...years ago Mrs. McLaughlin heard that a Morton Grove farmer named William Schroeder was maltreating his hogs. On behalf of the Illinois Humane Society she inspected his farm several times, finally had him arrested. A police court fined him $10. He appealed, won a reversal in Cook County's Criminal Court. Last week in Waukegan he was suing Mrs. McLaughlin for $10,000 for false arrest, malicious prosecution...
...speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully guarded laboratory he had built more than 100 fighting machines which traveled so fast they were practically invisible, could shear through the toughest steel as if it were butter. When the Directors finally made up their minds to arrest him Knox and his rebels had disappeared. From a lonely Arctic island Knox defied I. A. & A., smashed their fleet and the pax aeronautica to hopeless fragments. When his followers discovered that Knox thought himself sent by heaven to destroy the world, in horror they tried to halt the spreading catastrophe...