Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pikeville, Ky., a U. S. Representative was arrested on a warrant charging drunkenness. A deputy sheriff who made the arrest said he found the Representative in a downtown building only partially dressed. In court, the Representative called his accuser a liar and, according to the judge, used profanity. So he was sentenced to ten hours in jail and a $10 fine. The jail sentence was reduced to four hours at the request of his wife and physician...
...present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge of accusing Admiral Horthy. He was allegedly arrested for an old crime of slandering a politician, for which he had been sentenced to 14 days in jail. This weird procedure created almost as great a sensation as did the charge against...
...reductio ad absurdum that the chemist and coal man, George W. Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug-store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant...
Georgi Koeff, for harboring Captain Ninkoff (engineer of the outrage, killed while resisting arrest). Public execution...
When the uncertain veil had lifted a little, it was affirmed that, although many arrests had been made, the number did not reach the tens of thousands reported and that many prisoners had been released after interrogation. The large number of summary killings reported was considerably reduced. Alost, not all, had taken place when suspects had resisted arrest by armed force...