Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux Klan, was removed from control of its Propagation Department. This week he was indicted by a grand jury at Houston, Texas, for violating the Mann Act. Six members of the jury were Klansmen. Clarke gave himself up to Federal authorities in Atlanta, and was released on $1,000 bail...
Another of these innocents, arrested in 1918 for grand larceny and discharged, was arrested for the same offense in 1921 and put on probation. Rearrested the same year, he was released on bail. Thus he has been twice stimulated to go on with his virtue. Parole, suspended sentence, probation, bail, easy discharge, all the bounties, so to speak, for the commission of crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this...