Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when the train reached Paint Rock, Ala. Within two weeks and two days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held in readiness to suppress race disorders...
...Provisional President, has in his veins a trace of Jewish blood. Last week when Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, returned from a visit to Pope Pius XI and attempted to slip into Spain, he was caught by police of the Zamora Government, detained under virtual arrest at Guadalajara, "asked to leave Spain...
...despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict on me. You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying your orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life." Bragg did not take the dare...
...arrest in Boston of Dr. B. B. Clark, suspected book thief who later described to police inspectors a book racket of thefts totalling $500,000 has definite bearing on the situation of losses at the Harvard College Library, and new developments in the case it is hoped will enable Harvard authorities to stem the losses of books that take place yearly...
Yesterday morning C. R. Apted, superintendent of caretakers, visited the Boston Police headquarters when inspectors were examining the books taken with Clark on his arrest. The Harvard representative questioned the suspect for nearly an hour, Clark admitting that he had been in the Yard, but denying that he had ever entered Widener Library...