Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, one Ralph Richards was accused of visiting illegal saloons, posing as a prohibition enforcement officer and extracting large bribes from the proprietors. When, after being twice arrested for this practice, he was held without bail, Ralph Richards made a proposal to law authorities. He would aid detectives to find the whereabouts of an alleged "gang" which had assisted him in his operations...
From police stupidity, the report proceeded to flay lax prosecutors, loose bail systems, unreliable juries. It recommended, as a model for other cities, Detroit's Consolidated Criminal Court...
...Oilman Sinclair's friends and vice presidents-Henry Mason Day and Sheldon Clark-were "villains" from the start last week. They refused to tell the grand jury anything about the hiring of the Burns detectives. They said they were afraid of incriminating themselves. They were arrested, released on bail.*Their hearings were put off until after Thanksgiving Day, while the government ran out other aspects of the case. "Hero" Burns. Detective William John Burns began last week in a heroic capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall...
...friend, Mr. Day, who looks "like a well-groomed football tackle," was asked to explain his connection with the Burns men. He refused to answer, on the paradoxical but wholly legal ground that in explaining he might incriminate himself. He was arrested and placed under a $25,000 bail...
Harry F. Sinclair, already under $15,000 bail on two other counts, was not rearrested though a fresh warrant was obtained...