Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the soothing influence which many Cubans attribute to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles continued. Notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz, President Machado's favorite strong-arm man, recalled from his bloody job of stringing up provincial rebels fortnight ago (TIME, June 5), was still under technical arrest, charged with three murders. The Machado government dared not bring him to trial, not knowing how much truth lay in his oft-repeated boast that friends in the U. S. hold the original orders for every one of his political assassinations. Finally came the decision: Major Ortiz would be sent to Germany June...
Suddenly last week Machado called Ortiz back to Havana again. This time he was asked to answer formal military charges of murdering the three mill guards. Under technical arrest. Ortiz retired to his home outside Havana, hard by Dictator Machado's country place...
...disappearance of Morgan N. Buckalew, teller of the Farmers National Bank of Allentown, N. J. who absconded with $55,000 in cash and Liberty Bonds last September and whose wife anonymously appealed to him to return through TIME'S Letters columns (TIME, Nov. 14): his arrest, unrepentant, in Los Angeles. The whereabouts of Absconder Buckalew, junketing with another woman, was discovered through his subscription to the Trenton (N. J.) Times...
...political assassinations which he called "suicides." He enjoys performing executions personally and "Ortiz' Mark" means a bullet at the base of a corpse's brain. Civil courts indicted him for six "marks" but he was never brought to trial, lived in an officers' club while under arrest. This sample of Ortiz' work is particularly well known: Two years ago two Oriente students who had spoken against Ortiz happened to come to Havana. Another Cuban named Wycliffe Grafton was with them when Ortiz called. Said Ortiz, smiling, "Well, boys, I have you here at last." Grafton, claiming...
...murders of Edward Albert Ridley and his secretary Lee Weinstein in their gloomy subcellar office in Manhattan's Allen Street (TIME, May 22): the arrest of one Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that...