Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge, Joe Kaha-hawai had just made his daily report to court officers inside. Upon the lady's identification, a young white man stepped up to Kahahawai. flashed a piece of paper with a big red seal on it, ordered: "Come with me." Kahahawai, supposing that he was under arrest, got into a sedan waiting at the curb. The car sped off to a house. A gun was jammed into his ribs. He was forced into a bathroom. A shot was fired...
...Viceroy's next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became...
...Bapoo's day of silence, he received the warrant of arrest with a silent nod and smile...
...London every paper except the Laborite Daily Herald (which advocates granting Indians their independence) upheld the right royal acts of Viceroy Lord Willingdon last week, particularly endorsed his arrest of Mahatma Gandhi though some editors argued that the Viceroy should have received "Gandhi" before ordering his arrest...
...Shawnee, Okla., one Orville Burch chartered an airplane to escape with $500 stolen from a bank. He offered a ride to Leroy Cooper, who watched officers arrest him at Fort Smith, Ark., advised him to waive extradition. Judge Leroy Cooper will try Orville Burch...