Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several of the arrested people declared that after they had been arrested and booked in the police station that they were taken into a back room where they were beaten severely. They stated that they had made no resistance to the arrest and had made no show of fight while they were in the station...
...apartment on Brattle Street. He was so anxious to have some sort of garden that he devised the scheme of placing plants on the fire escape to form a floral display. It was alright until the fire department demanded that they be immediately removed under the penalty of instant arrest...
...power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish...
...entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax occurred when the courthouse was sacked and ballot boxes stolen. Constable Prescott was sent to Banks's house to arrest him. Banks, who had loudly declared he would never be taken alive, took down his hunting rifle and drilled Constable Prescott through the heart. Thoroughly frightened, the law-abiding populace rallied around Editor Ruhl and his Mail Tribune, put Banks and a half dozen henchmen behind bars...
Dedham, Mass., April 22--Murton Millen, on trial for his life, was reunited with his attractive 19-year-old bride, Norma, in Dedham jail today for the first time since his arrest in New York nearly two months...