Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commodore into railroads. In 1853 began Drew's association with the Erie Railroad which culminated in the scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant rascality, the three used their vast profits to launch an assault upon bank credit, foreign exchange, stock prices, to the ruination of thousands of investors...
...knowledge of their sexual conduct reached the townspeople. With great gravity and high sense of moral earnestness, a general reshuffling of wives was arranged, continuing until most of the Perfectionists had new partners. Converts were eagerly sought, until at length the conversions of young girls brought down widespread antagonism, arrest, threats of lynching...
...Rogers' trusted insurance man was immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into...
...addition to his contempt order he had two new warrants, one calling for the arrest of John Crempa for malicious mischief, another for Mrs. Crempa's arrest on charges of assaulting sheriff's officers (during the surveying party ruckus). It was easy to pick up John Crempa's son on a contempt charge last week at the riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander...
Thomas turned out to be an African Gold Coast Negro who once spent six months in Addis Ababa, and had fled to the U. S. in a hurry to escape arrest for fraud. More quaint was the other "Ethiopian" exposed in Tokyo last week. On removing from his face a mixture of soot and cold cream, police discovered that they had a Japanese college student. Taro Yamada. No prankster, Mr. Yamada had turned himself from yellow to black because he believed that today an Ethiopian would prove irresistible to the Japanese waitress of his desires...