Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four crimes of violence mentioned in your article, committed during the last month or so in Marion County, Ind., has been definitely solved by the state police, the county sheriff and the Indianapolis police force, with the result that the twelve criminals involved are now all under arrest, all have confessed, and the cases will very shortly be called for trial...
...would try to whup the pants off anybody he met. The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941. In 1943, Vail killed his first man when he shot "his way out of a tight place while making an arrest. He was tried for murder, and acquitted. A year later he was elected sheriff. Fifteen days on the job, he blasted the life out of a big Negro he had brought into the jail office for disturbing the peace. The prisoner, he said, had tried to take his gun. There...
Released on ball after an arrest in the University town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, several of the men fled to the home of the Presbyterian minister with two carloads of angry cab drivers behind them...
...Government decided against blanket arrest of league members. Instead, individuals charged with specific aid to the Communists would be arrested. At week's end, Dr. Lo was back at home, still with that feeling of being watched...
...afternoon of the Tribuna attack, hooligans tore down the Soviet Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...