Word: bailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam were set free; their bail bonds, $10,000 each, were returned, despite the fact that both men, while denying that they had killed young Till, admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound...
...Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate fest. The Lineup (starring Tom Tully and Warner Anderson) gets its material from the San Francisco police files...
...three, all nineteen years old, were arrested for disturbing the peace and are scheduled to appear in East Cambridge district court today at 9 a.m. Free at present after posting 20-dollar bail each, they are John A. Friedman M.I.T. '57, Luther S. Harris M.I.T. '59, and Robert N. Rich M.I.T...
...union official made the statement to Howard; thus the newsman had already waived his protection by identifying his source in print. As a result, the judge found Howard guilty of contempt of court and ordered him jailed until he revealed his source. Newsman Howard got out on $100 bail and took his case to California's Court of Appeals...
...court, Dalmia confidently offered bail "in any quantity." But even he was staggered when the magistrate demanded $4,000,000 cash and $4,000,000 in sureties. Dalmia was released next day after putting up $3,000,000 himself, plus an other $1,000,000 in sureties offered by two relatives. As Dalmia went home, Premier Nehru held a press conference to discuss the progress of India's socialism. "The rich tend to fade out - a good thing," he remarked cheerily...