Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called Chile Mapocha Acuna La-tore, onetime waiter at Washington's Congressional Country Club. Lounging in the witness chair, this individual made a series of rank revelations about his services to the police department.* Informer Latore said he had participated in several hundred "frame-up" and "shake-down" arrests of women. The method: he would seek out and compromise a woman, wait for the police to arrive. If she were willing to bribe the officers, Latore got a split of $5 or $10. If she would not pay, at least the police got credit for an arrest, plus rake...
Sowing Crisis. The confession of the No. 1 prisoner, Professor Leonid Ramzin, until his arrest Chairman of the All-Union Heating Institute, was too long to be got through at a single session of the Court. Standing primly before the microphone Professor Ramzin began in teacherish tones, "I am guilty. I do not know what to say in my defense," then spoke for three hours while everyone smoked...
Vanished Hopes; Bourgeois Spoils. One by one the other prisoners rose to confess. Planner Victor Larichev, until his arrest a member of the State Planning Commission, testified that he was the "treasurer" of the conspirators (who called themselves "The Counter-Revolutionary Party"), had handled some $2,300,000 in foreign contributions. Any premature conclusion that counterrevolution pays well was nipped by Prisoner Professor Alexander S. Fedotov: "As I sat in prison and thought of my vanished hopes, I told myself that had our plans succeeded it would have been foreign imperialists and a handful of rich emigres who would have...
...York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City, by train, airplane and automobile in search of the Golden Fleece of new capital. Only when it was learned (last fortnight) that he was ready to surrender, was a warrant for his arrest actually issued. Criminal charges, civil suits, Federal prosecution face...
...Charles A. Levine, millionaire junkman who flew the Atlantic in 1927 as Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin's passenger, was arrested and jailed in Vienna on a charge of conspiring to forge French coins of small denomination. His explanation: he was having some little medals made resembling French coins with which he was going to surprise his U. S. friends at Christmas. With him at the time of his arrest was his good friend Mabel ("Queen of Diamonds") Boll who subsequently fled to Paris...