Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chargé d'Affaires Stoffel, in an official diplomatic note to the Swiss Foreign Office, demanded immediate arrest and extradition of the attackers, accused the Swiss police of "inexcusable tardiness." He said that the attack was an "act of banditry without precedent" by "a gang of Rumanian fascists and other criminal elements, armed with automatic weapons, axes and knives," who had "pillaged" the legation. The Swiss simply replied that they did not like the tone of the Rumanians' protest...
Malcolm Bersohn '43, who for the three years prior to his arrest in 1951 had been studying at the Peiping Union Medical College, declared on his arrival in Hong Kong that he was "full of shame and remorse for his crime against the Communist people...
...into a staff car, and eloped with her across the Russian border. In a Russian Orthodox church at Odessa they were married on Aug. 31, 1918. After the honeymoon, Carol's father, King Ferdinand, hauled his son back to Bucharest and sent Carol's bride into house arrest at a royal estate...
...Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...
Then Donahue persuaded Helen Weaver's family to offer $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer, plastered the reward-offer story on the front page of the Press. It touched off a chain reaction of tips from underworld informers. First two tipsters said in affidavits that Harry Washburn, the son-in-law, had paid them a total of $750 to shoot not Helen Weaver but her husband. Police promptly arrested Washburn on the charge of murder...