Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen" Helen Werner, longtime Los Angeles political fixer who was tried and freed by State and Federal authorities last year on charges of bribe taking (TIME, Dec. 21), was found unconscious by police on a Long Beach lawn, booked for drunkenness. She forfeited $10 bail...
...flareback to the Gran Chaco war was the jailing last week at La Paz under 80,000,000 bolivianos bail ($6,400,000) of British Munitions Suppliers Anthony Ashton and John W. Webster on charges of having bilked Bolivia...
Edward C. Smith '23, is at present the president of the Club; other officers are: Paul H. Smart '14, vice president; Hamilton V. Bail '13, treasurer; Theodore B. Lewis '13, secretary...
...alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...
...well-to-do Larchmont widow. Late that night a detective pounded on Mrs. Tuttle's door. She was arrested on charges of dog-poisoning (for which one may be jailed a year in New York State) and taken before a Justice of the Peace, who set $500 bail after she pleaded not guilty...