Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Kentucky was shocked again and General Denhardt's troubles were over forever. Free on $25,000 bail, on the eve of a second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
...this point that Governor Quinn, declaring that he would rid Rhode Island of a "vicious influence." swore out the dramatically-served warrant for Mr. O'Hara's arrest. Released on $5,000 bail supplied by Mayor McCoy, he was immediately rearrested on another warrant sworn out by Adman William E. Beehan whom he had called in the Star-Tribune a briber, released on similar bail from the same source. Next day he was back at his office for the running of the $25,000 Narragansett Special, which he had threatened to open to the public free, with...
...neither Captain Tobias-who had previously lost two ships-nor his men were ever found. The longboat with its spindly mast and tattered sail struggled on. The concert singers cheered the company with song. Eighteen days from Wake Island, the forlorn, pitiable band, too weak to row or bail, burned black by sun, grounded their boat at Guam. Only account of this extraordinary voyage seems to have been published in the magazine, The Friend, which Colonel Bicknell ran across...
...that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
...because of these considerations, Mr. District Attorney, that I feel that the exercise of a sound discretion must turn in favor of the admission of prisoner to bail and I accordingly grant his application...