Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several of the others went to his home and brought his proof of identification to the police station, where they were also placed under arrest. Miss Shiling, one white and five Negro boys spent several hours in jail before they were released on bail...
Thanks to a ruling by Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, Mobster Mickey Cohen, 50, serving a 15-year sentence for income tax evasion, became the first man in memory to leave Alcatraz on bail ($100,000). After seeking to wash away the taint of his 82-day imprisonment with five successive hot baths, the longtime West Coast gambling czar flew home to his Carousel ice cream parlor in suburban Los Angeles and, as a pair of conspicuously inconspicuous plainclothesmen crunched cones at the counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging...
...playwright's son was arraigned last week on his saddest charge yet: neglect of his four children. After finding not a single bed in the ramshackle Point Pleasant, N.J., home where his offspring slept on inflated swimming mats, police jailed O'Neill in lieu of $1,000 bail...
Once a friend volunteered to help bail him out of his debts if he would stop gambling. Fred's resolve lasted until he got his next paycheck, which he promptly lost in a crap game. "I was on a one-way train that had only two stops-suicide or death," says Fred. But he managed to jump off the train with the help of an organization called Gamblers Anonymous...
Then Don Manuel slipped back across the border-just before the grand jury indicted him for the felony offense of accepting deposits in a bank that he knew was insolvent. As of last week, ex-Banker Medina was free on $50,000 bail after coming out of hiding to accept arrest. Before the indictment, he had promised to surrender his property to creditors-but, as it turned out, there was precious little property to give. Don Manuel had apparently lost heavily on the stock market recently, and had sold his cattle herd before the closing; even the bank building proved...