Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island of Mallorca the live middle-class U. S. citizens (one female) who had sat in jail for seven weeks on flimsy charges of assaulting a civil guard (TIME, July 24) were still waiting for Fighter Bowers to do something and at least get them out on bail...
...women "prostitutes" because they drink and wear beach pajamas in public. He knew what U. S. tourists were threatening, knew also his duty to the Spanish Guardia Civil. "There must be a trial, even if it means an American boycott of Mallorca," cried Judge Vidal, "and I cannot grant bail...
Finally Ambassador Bowers caught Premier Azana and delivered his diplomatic punch. Mr. Bowers knew that the Premier could not antagonize the Guardia Civil, chief prop of Spanish law & order under the Republic as it was under the Monarchy, but surely bail-high if necessary-could be arranged? As Minister of War the Premier is Commander of the Guardia Civil. He conferred with its chiefs in Madrid, then cabled orders to Mallorca...
...Bail was set at the sum-enormous for Mallorca-of 10,000 pesetas ($1,175) per prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...
Meanwhile the Mallorcan authorities decided that, having collected 20,000 pesetas bail from two prisoners, they might as well release the other three, Edmund Blodgett, Roderick Mead and Mrs. Lockwood's husband Clinton. Judge Vidal collected the five passports, ordered the bailed-out Americans to report daily to him, lest they leave Mallorca. In Madrid diplomatic compliments were exchanged between Ambassador Bowers and Premier Azana who promised ''expeditious conclusion" of the trial. It was expected to end in sentences of imprisonment so short that the five U. S. citizens can be declared to have served their time...