Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, the hasty disposition of the new evidence was characteristic of the acerbity which has marked the attitude of Connecticut authorities towards the defendant since his arrest. For in refusing to hear the new witnesses, Judge Jennings, the presiding justice of the board, remarked that in his opinion their testimony in no way would have changed the result of the first trial...
...April 9, 1907, the words, "Arrest Six Harvard Men at Theatre Riot" appeared as the feature headlines on the front page of the Boston Herald. Similar caption came out in the Advertiser and the other morning papers. The occasion for this riot which caused so much disturbance and comment, both in the University and around Boston, was the opening performance at the Majestic Theatre on Monday night, April 8, 1907, of the play "Brown at Harvard," which the Dramatic Club has recently chosen for its spring production...
...arrest of Felix 'aragianes, proprietor of Felix' newsstand on Harvard Square, is the latest stop in the suppression of the April number of the American Mercury. He was arranged in court yesterday morning to answer to preliminary action in a criminal suit against him, but the case was dismissed for two weeks...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...
...veteran charged that Zober had struck him repeatedly with a club when the police raided a strike meeting three weeks ago. The two patrolmen were charged with beating, kicking, prostrating a storekeeper and his wife in their store two weeks ago. A justice of the peace issued warrants of arrest. The police refused to serve them and a constable from a neighboring town had to be procured to do it. But the visiting constable backed down at the last moment, said he was afraid of "publicity...