Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over $5000 worth of clothing and miscellaneous articles from Harvard students, an unidentified suspect was last night taken in custody by the sleuths of Colonel Charles R. (Break-it-up) Apted '06, who took personal charge of the flying squadron which swooped down upon Dunster House for the arrest...
Last night, Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, superintendent of caretakers, reported that he knew who the culprits are, but had taken no measures up to that time for their arrest. With characteristic forehandedness, however, he had a bill of over $20 ready to hand over to his prisoners when the arrest is made...
Ever since M. and Mme Venizelos were taken, wounded but miraculously alive, from their bullet-riddled limousine (TIME, June 19. 1933), Greeks have been expecting the trial of Gangster Georgios Karathanasios if it ever began to end in a revolution. Before his belated arrest last October, Gangster Karathanasios boasted openly in Athens' cafés: "The Government will protect me!" Witnesses against Prisoner Karathanasios were kidnapped, beaten and their homes in some instances bombed. As popular exasperation mounted, the Government last week appointed a new prosecutor who called 600 witnesses and announced "justice will be done...
...Whole Town's Talking (Columbia) is the story of a cringing little bookkeeper whose one remarkable characteristic is a facial resemblance to an escaped murderer whose picture is on all the front pages. The nightmare train of events into which this circumstance plunges Bookkeeper Jones starts when police arrest him, smilingly dismiss his apologetic explanations as the wily alibis of a desperate criminal. It continues when Jones, released with a safe-conduct to prevent his being arrested again, returns to his dingy room and finds Murderer Mannion waiting to steal the safe-conduct and use Jones as a decoy...
...make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...