Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Granting a motion in arrest of judgment in the East Cambridge District Court Saturday, Judge A. P. Stone, who a week ago attacked the methods of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau in refusing to set aside a default occasioned by its mistake, accorded to the client of that Bureau his right to "a day in court" and a hearing on the merits of his case. The Motion was argued by a member of the Bureau...
When Chief of Police Frank Matthews arrived, he had to argue with Moore for 20 minutes to put down his shotgun and accept arrest. On the front porch lay the dead body of Agent Robert Knox Moncure. Beneath it was the blood-stained warrant. In the kitchen lay the shot-riddled dying body of Agent F. R. Patterson...
...month prior this main trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico had been slammed closed because Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had threatened to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, one-time President of Mexico, on an old murder conspiracy charge. Born a Spaniard, Vails had once been a Mexican officeholder under Diaz. Naturalized a U. S. citizen after Diaz's fall, he flaunted his political hostility to the new Mexican regime by threatening its still-strongest figure...
Athenian police, casehardened, made no move to arrest the carbolic spraying orderlies. But a mob collected around the Ministry of Health. Scared officials ordered the police to arrest not only the orderlies but also all doctors and nurses...
...took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated. He did not arrest the two passengers. They were dead, from alcohol declared the police surgeon, from carbon monoxide swore a private physician who had noted the pinkness of the victims' bloods. Professors Haldane and Hill read newspaper accounts of the driver's jeopardy...