Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken off the train, charged with assault, Porter Smith protested that he had been arranging baggage for the woman, that Conductor English had started the fight. New York Central officials were grieved to announce that Porter Smith had become "mentally unbalanced...
...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...
Awakened in the night, Gangster Diamond was arrested on a charge of assault, taken to jail at Catskill. With feelings akin to those of Badman James Nannery (see p. 16) and of far-famed Killer Fred Burke* who was captured by country detectives after eluding the police of many a big city (TIME, April 6), Gangster Diamond protested, "They're crazy. These guys are crazy...
...Torres was defending champion in the 160-pound class and slated to win the title again this year, but the hard-hitting freshman got the decision after three rounds of fighting. In the next best bout D. D. Carrick successfully defended his title in the unlimited class against the assault of J. F. Schlafly 1L. The contest, while well-fought, was rather slow, and the fighters did not show the form which was expected of them...
...Booked as "Alfred Caponi" in Chiago in 1922 on charges of driving while intoxicated, carrying concealed weapons, assault. Never brought to trial...