Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew about Tully McCoolagh. the secret leader of the Irish Republican Army, but had never laid eyes on him. When one night a friend hinted that a meeting might be arranged, Garry jumped at the chance. At the meeting Tully asked Garry to sign a manifesto that would mean arrest and certain death to two of the signers. Garry agreed without batting an eye. In Mount joy Prison he and Tully were put in the same cell; they were to be shot in the morning. To his astonishment Garry discovered that Tully's real name was Tulloolagh...
...Mexico a $30.000 indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...
...Fugitive From a Chain Gang, taken from a successful autobiography of almost like title* written by Robert Elliott Burns. Last week the fugitive was a fugitive no longer. Author Burns was apprehended in Newark. He had been running a toy shop in East Orange. His arrest aroused national interest, stirred up two issues: a general one on the question of crime & punishment, a specific legal one between Georgia and New Jersey...
...Amherst township near Buffalo, Police Chief Evans saw William J. Klute, whom he had long wanted on charges of robbery, in a newsreel tuning up one of the late William Wrigley's motorboats. He wired Manhattan police to arrest Tuner Klute, went...
Although sentiment throughout Athens was with the distinguished visitor from Chicago, the five judges confirmed the arrest. Mr. Insull was moved to the Aretaieon Clinic pending the arrival of complete documents from the U. S. He may well have recalled that the day of his arrest was the third anniversary of that glamorous night when his greatest public work, the new Chicago Civic Opera building, was opened to the triumphal overture from Aida...