Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to raise $3,000 bail, Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, great grandson & namesake of Cleveland's late great industrialist and President-maker, was clapped into Cleveland jail to await a Grand Jury hearing of a charge that he forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral...
...were raided. The police found one loaded Springfield, one bomb, 50 wooden guns, and a batch of "Army of Liberation" enlistment cards. Charged with sedition and conspiracy to overthrow the Federal Government, Albizu Campos was indignant because the U. S. would not release him and his friends on $1 bail. Instead bail was given at $10,000 each and Albizu Campos went back to court. Since there is no such crime as sedition under Puerto Rican law, many peaceable advocates of independence were enraged at this imperialistic intrusion of U. S. law on their island. Liberals denounced...
...maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram Stevens Hewitt, only child of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper...
...Oyez, oyez, Edward Southwell Russell, Baron de Clifford, in the name of the King come forth and save you and your bail or else you forfeit your recognizance!" cried the Clerk...
...Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt, for a change." He was released on $500 bail...