Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early one morning last fortnight police spied him whizzing out Connecticut Avenue at 70 m. p. h., gave chase, caught him when he was forced to slow down for a truck. At the police station Representative Zioncheck posted $25 collateral. He later denied to reporters that he had been arrested, next day was "not in" at either home or office. Last week, when he failed to appear in court to answer the speeding charge, Judge Walter J. Casey promptly issued an order for his arrest. In the House Office Building the Washington Representative gabbled to reporters about Congressional immunity, snorted...
...demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding and contempt of court constituted a breach of the peace-one constitutional ground for a Congressman's arrest. After much argument behind closed doors, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor was told off to go and pay the fines. Out the court building's back door soon slipped the two Congressmen. To newshawks Representative Zioncheck announced that he was going back to his apartment to look...
...Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...
Hamm Solution. "I think we've solved the Hamm kidnapping at last," exulted Director Hoover, handing newshawks his third exciting press announcement within three days. Briefly it announced the arrest at separate points of three men, virtually unknown in police circles, for the kidnapping in June 1933 of St. Paul's Brewer William A. Hamm Jr., released four days later after payment of $100,000 ransom. Also named as co-kidnappers were three men now in jail. Still at large for this and a score of other crimes is Alvin Karpis...
...General Rafael Navarro and three policemen came into my bedroom at midnight where I was reading. I was not surprised. I said, 'I am at your orders.' General Navarro said solemnly, 'By order of the President of the Republic you are under arrest. . . .' I got out of bed and said, 'I consider myself your prisoner. I have no forces at my disposal and I do not need them. You may take me in an airplane or before a firing squad. . . .' General Navarro replied, 'I request you to prepare to accompany...