Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have told Customer Schnell that ugly things were being said of the bank, that he should sell his shares. No alarmist, Mr. Schnell hurried to the bank, told them what he had heard, produced Brother Moses Schnell as a witness. Thereupon the bank took a bold step, ordered the arrest of Mr. O'Connell...
...strapping, breezy and likeable, emerged from the West with tall tales of precious metals, he found a friend and supporter in elderly, rich August Heckscher of Manhattan. It must have grieved Friend Heckscher to learn, last October, that Promoter Bob had vanished, left behind records which demanded his arrest when he was found (TIME...
...rounds of ammunition, twelve pairs of riding boots, a box of nickel-plated spurs, twelve officers' uniforms complete with hats, a gross of clinical thermometers, box after box of silver-plated insignia for officers' shoulder straps. A letter in the pockets of de Zaldo led to the arrest of Emilio N. Robaina, correspondent of Excelsior El Pais (Excelsior The Homeland), a gentleman with beetling brows and heavy black mustache. Department of Justice agents telephoned Washington, telephoned Havana where Senors de Zaldo and Robaina seemed to be well known to the secret police. De Zaldo was charged with illegal...
...Until last week it was not known that the Association had given Commissioner Mulrooney $15,000 to purchase information leading to the arrest and trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg for the murder of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff (Vivian Gordon). Stein and Greenberg were subsequently acquitted (TIME, July 27). The Association gave the money, but kept quiet about it, because the Bischoff murder for a time cast a shadow over the Police Department...
Things might have been even worse were it not for the prompt arrest of Dr. Villana. Dr. Villana, a sinister figure who could only exist in a romantic novel or modern Spain, is a wandering Gypsy physician who has tramped the bleak hills of Andalusia for years healing the sick and preaching bloody revolution. He and his staff of conspirators were arrested last week just as they were planning a triumphal entrance into Seville. The tavern of the Brothers Cornelio, a notorious Syndicalist meeting place, was surrounded by artillery. Well-trained gunners blew the little bodega to bits with three...