Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brother-in-law Gramm was promptly arrested, charged with the offense of which Congressman Michaelson is cleared. He hired the Congressman's lawyer, used the same $2,000 cash for bail, remarked dolefully: "I'm sorry. I didn't expect this...
...once-invincible "mob." They had wriggled through three murder trials to freedom. For the mowing down of seven members of the George ("Bugs") Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day (TIME, Feb. 25), Scalise had been indicted, had obtained temporary freedom the fortnight prior on $50,000 bail...
...native or naturalized businessmen. First reports on the operation of the Jones Act detailed that: 1) In Philadelphia a judge sentenced Paul Groggo, 15, to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine; later the judge suspended the sentence. 2) In Boston, orders were issued to double the bail required in all liquor cases before Federal Commissioners. 3) Trucking firms who have been transporting liquor to foreign embassies in Washington were told to cease; only actual diplomats in actual diplomatic automobiles may transport liquor. 4) Seven men arrested in Manhattan on March 4 waited last week to find...
...Teacher Thomas Mulligan, Tailorman Jacob B. Sommers. They were charged with "conspiring to do bodily injury to the person of Herbert Hoover and by threats and intimidation to prevent him from taking office as President of the U. S." Three days later they were arraigned, placed under $10,000 bail, which they could not raise. Then the prosecutor, Assistant U. S. Attorney Louis S. Joel, delayed the hearing while he looked for "missing" witnesses. The trio remained in jail while Mr. Hoover was received in Miami, while he proceeded to Belle Isle, while he embarked on a fishing trip...
McManus. The appearance of Gambler McManus, was the next major development. Through his lawyer he "surrendered" to one of his brother's fellow detectives. He pleaded "not guilty." He was held without bail and District Attorney Banton announced: "We have a beautiful case of circumstantial evidence." Gambler McManus, who refused to talk to Attorney Banton, smiled. He knew that warrants were out for the arrest of Jane Doe, John Doe and Richard Roe-persons as yet uncaught by Attorney Banton but suspected perhaps more than McManus of having actually committed the murder in Room 349. Further apprehensions were still...