Word: bail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...
...charge of homicide, in connection with the Wall Street bomb of September 16, 1920, is again free. It was alleged that he boasted in Siberia that he knew the driver of "the little red wagon" of Death. He was arrested in New York and held in the Tombs without bail. His case was dismissed on May 21, there being no evidence...
Charles E. Brickley (who in 1914 kicked five field goals for Harvard against Yale): " I was indicted in Springfield, Mass., for illegal stock negotiations and released on $10,000 bail. Since the dissolution of my stock brokerage concern in 1921, this is the second suit in which I have been involved...
...experiment is still very much alive. "Kuzbas" is a Utopian colony located at Kamerovo, Siberia, where American radical workers migrated to carry out their syndicalist and communist theories " in perfect freedom." It was originally under the leadership of "Big Bill" Haywood, the I. W. W. chief who jumped his bail while under a 20-year jail sentence, but he was ejected by the colonists for incompetence. Following this, disillusioned members of the colony returned to America bringing back gloomy tales of the failure of Kuzbas and charging certain radical promoters of the venture in America with obtaining their money under...
...Frederick A. Cook, "North Pole Discoverer": "At Fort Worth I was arrested with several of my associates for using the mails to defraud in the sale of oil stock. I furnished $25,000 bail and was released...