Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They telephoned back to the Governor of Rhode Island. He remonstrated with the Massachusetts law to release his Officers. Massachusetts declined. At 1 a. m. the seven hapless Rhode Islanders were locked in separate cells. Nor did they get out till some time later, when a local Attorney furnished bail...
...next step was to bring before a Justice of the Peace one Mrs. Alice H. J. Morris, the "healer," and one Mrs. Beulah Webster, the "reader." They were held for the Grand Jury in $2,000 bail each as material witnesses. Bond for both women was furnished by John Lampkin, son of the deceased, who said he would have called a physician had he realized the seriousness of his mother's plight...
...been an open book. This is the first time any aspersions have been cast upon my personal or official integrity." Following his conviction and sentence last week, Mr. Langley set in motion an effort for a new trial. Meanwhile he started for Washington at large under $5,000 bail. He had agreed not to take part in the proceedings of congress until his case was settled. Hardly had he arrived in the Capital, however, when he was taken seriously ill. His condition was variously described as "nervous collapse," "cerebral hemorrhage," "cerebral paralysis...
...Gina, he leaves the room with a strap-load of books. Towards the end of the evening, he returns still in the tuxedo--throws the books down and remarks that he's darned glad that's over. We should think he would be, but was it a masquerade bail or a night class...
...sweetheart, whose estate the son has largely defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund to her son to make restitution. Playwright, Abby Merchant, seems optimistic about the young man's reformation, in spite of having moulded his character herself. The audience is pessimistic...