Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...extensive plan for counterfeiting tickets for the Yale game was frustrated yesterday by the arrest of two men in Portland, Mr., by F. J. O'Connor of the Harvard Athletic Association and inspector Deehan of the Cambridge Police Department. The men arrested had secured a half-tone plate of the back of one of the tickets and were caught trying to have a facsimile made of the face. They were tried in the municipal police court yesterday afternoon and were bound over in $1000 bail for trial before the Superior court in January...
...plot of the comedy centres about the receipt by the village chief of police of a warrant--"Steckbrief"--calling for the arrest of a spy who is supposed to be hiding in the village. The description of the spy is given in the most general terms, and the ambitious chief of police mistakes every new arrival for the man he is to arrest. Two travelling salesmen and a doctor are held as suspects pending the arrival of the police commissioner, who is summoned from a neighboring town. All three succeed, finally, in proving their innocence, much to the discomfiture...
...rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next day, to see that his boys, if in any trouble, had justice done them; and that in most cases, as would doubtless happen in this, the mere fact of arrest would be sufficient punishment. All that I could see of his relations to the students proved the hold he had on them in this way and, when it came to sterner discipline, I knew one or two events which showed me that this mild authority had its distinct limitations. I remember...
Through the CRIMSON I wish to announce that the agreement with the undergraduate members of the so-called "Med Fac" society, the terms of which have been previously published, has been carried out. Mr. Joy, who, as directed, left Cambridge immediately after his arrest, has taken his final examinations; but of his own motion he has withdrawn from Harvard College, requesting that the Faculty shall not consider him a candidate for a degree until such time as it shall feel that he may justly be recommended for one. Yours sincerely. B. S. HURLBUT...
...Coldstream, Bowser and Storm propose at the same time and are accepted by their respective ladies. Some of the grotesque and humorous aspects of the United States customs and the Boston police are brought out in the characters of Inspector Baggs and Policeman Flynn. The play closes with the arrest of the Counterfeiter...