Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand her a map). Placed under house arrest. Rebel Rose managed to continue her espionage by such devices as the smuggling out of messages concealed in pink balls of yarn. Properly jailed in January 1862, she was pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died for her cause: trying...
...Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...
...Jefferson County jail in Birmingham one day last week, sheriff's deputies booked, mugged and fingerprinted an unusual prisoner: Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, 41. Garrett's arrest, on an indictment for vote fraud in the June 1 Democratic primary, was another installment in one of the worst political scandals in Alabama history...
...wife escaped to West Berlin and broadcast appeals to friends in East Germany for help. Reports reached the West that he had tried to commit suicide in his cell. Last week, 19 months after his arrest, the East German news agency, A.D.N., announced that Dr. Karl Hamann had been sentenced to ten years' hard labor in a Communist prison. The charges: having "systematically sabotaged the supply of foodstuff for the population...
Clock Watcher. In Berlin, accused of failing to arrest a man fleeing a robbery, Policeman Erwin Plessow was sentenced to seven weeks in jail when he explained that he was due to get off duty in three minutes and could not possibly have caught the thief in that time...