Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...
...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
Died. Ralph Leo Richards, 37, half-brother of Vincent Richards, professional tennis player; of a bullet fired by a policeman when Richards resisted arrest after a holdup; in Manhattan. Month ago Richards escaped from Eastview Penitentiary (TIME, July...
...host's white wife, who had run off into the bush with a native, had just been recaptured, but nothing was said about it. In the next room she waited her punishment while he and Riquem argued abstractions. Next morning, on the Governor's orders, Riquem arrested him. Torpido, right handy man to the Governor, followed Jeronimo to the outpost where he was imprisoned. Torpido thought it would be a good idea to have him killed. But the Governor, who normally would have agreed with Torpido, had changed his mind. Virginia, daughter of the woman who had once...
...tears streaming down his cheeks, not from emotion but from the fumes of the bombs. When his cavalry rode down a group of veterans with a U. S. flag, a spectator sang out: "The American flag means nothing to me after this." General MacArthur snapped: "Put that man under arrest if he opens his mouth again...