Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executed by his subjects. The King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon Voltaire, restore Pompadour, release Nanette...
...security for deposits of State funds in Kansas banks-found them lying in the vault not more than a yard from the bona fide original bonds of which they were copies, owned by the State School Fund Commission. Governor Landon then took the extraordinary step of personally ordering an arrest...
...guests. Then he was charged with conspiring with officials of the County to buy up its bonds at 30? on the dollar and get them refunded dollar for dollar. He was to have gone on trial on that charge Aug. 11. He did not, because Governor Landon ordered his arrest...
...snatching August Luer, aged Alton, Ill. banker, St. Louis police and Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where...
...Michigan example grew out of William Well's elopement with Myrtle Krause two years ago. He was 21, a farm boy; she was 16, ward of the Probate Court at Hart. Mich. William Wells testified that after his arrest. Probate Judge Henry I. Palmiter threatened him with three to five years in the penitentiary unless he consented to sterilization. Dr. Norman W. Heysett performed the simple operation...