Word: bail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cornell is in trouble again. A fracas between thirty students and a policeman occurred last Saturday, in which the policeman was nearly killed. Two students were captured and bail furnished...
Charles Melius, the brakeman who is accused of causing the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster, was arraigned yesterday, and admitted to bail...
...college will pay for the lamps; it seems to me that it would be eminently short-sighted in them to neglect doing so. Two, who were unfortunately in this bad company, have been detected. One was arrested on the warrant of the mayor, and has been held in bail of $300 to appear before the grand jury. The offence is a criminal one, and the guilty parties are liable to spend the next two years of their life in the State Prison, besides paying damages...
...Suthin' wuss'n 'confound,' I'll go bail," drily observed Captain Jonas Batt. It was a deculiarity of Posett people that they were all more or less nearly related...
...Explain as I might, when brought to the Court of Inquiry, it was very evident to the Judge that I was guilty, and I was only set free on receipt of a very large sum as bail...