Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short time later, City Editor Underwood was called to the phone again. This time it was Photographer Fowler calling from Nourse's chambers. Said he: "All right, Aggie. I took the picture. Now I'm under arrest. I've already been convicted, fined $100 and sentenced to five days in jail." That was just what Campbell and Underwood had been hoping for. The case before Judge Nourse, involving a petition to recall Mayor Fletcher Bowron, was hardly sensational news. But the Her-Ex thought that there was an important principle at stake. Almost all Los Angeles courts...
Bully Boys. Success, however, went to Hogjaw's head. Only a year and a half later he got drunk, threatened some Negroes with a shotgun, resisted arrest and was sent back to the prison farm. He was not particularly dismayed; he was made keeper of the prison bloodhounds, was well fed, and was allowed to go off on criminal tracking jaunts when law officers asked for use of the dogs...
While Hogjaw posed proudly, cigarette dangling from his lips, deputies rushed up to arrest the killers and photographers to record the stirring scene. Said Hogjaw, with an old con's bland and innocent eye: "I did it because I want to be something more than just a number at Parchman." There was no guarantee that he would be released because of his big feat, but there would probably be.more opportunities and it seemed only a question of time. Hogjaw, who had also shot (but only wounded) another fleeing prisoner last August, was obviously the type of man that some...
...Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...
When the club brought Grover up for court martial, the children to whom he had been giving lessons picketed the club-house, weeping voluminously and crying, "We want Charlie. We want Charlie." "The officers gave me 15 minutes to clear off the premises," says Grover, "or else they would arrest me for inciting the little so-and-so's to riot." He finished the summer swimming in all the pro races he could find...