Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There followed an alleged campaign to purge Chile of Reds, during which it was observed that those arrested, jailed or deported were in very few instances tinged with Communism but were in every instance foes of Premier Ibanez. The crux came when the President's own brother was arrested as a Red, although he, Senor Javier Figueroa was actually Chief Justice of the Chilean Supreme Court, and legally immune from arrest...
...rest on evidence of personal identification but on later conduct of the defendants which indicated "consciousness of guilt". It was the evidence introduced on this question of "consciousness of guilt" which let into the case its disturbing elements. Sacco and Vanzetti could not deny that on their arrest they had acted suspiciously, and to rebut the inference from this behavior they expected at the time to be arrested for another offense--for "radical" activities. The opening which they thus gave was "played up" by the prosecuting attorney and much of the trial was devoted to exploiting the radicalism...
...less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro gendarmes under the command of U. S. onetime marines, waited in vain to arrest U. S. Senator King who announced he would not try to enter the country over President Borno's ban (TIME, March...
...times are strenuous in Chile (see below). Soon Señor Rioseco stood up and lathered himself. At that moment a soldier's gun butt crashed against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped through the door, made the soldiers quiet, wounded one. Then with his last shot, Señor Rioseco committed...
...indisputable that these men are "Conservatives" and "Capitalists"-not "Reds." Their arrest was as scandalous as though President Coolidge should send soldiers to seize Chief Justice Taft and deport him as a Communist. The explanation, as usual, is that Dictator Carlos Ibanez is again finding his despotism over Chile threatened and is getting rid of his enemies under a plausible excuse. Among those arrested who might by a wild stretch of the imagination he called "Red" was Senor Luis Humberto Matis, "The Chilean Gompers," Secretary of the Chilean Federation of Labor...