Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly, for no good reason, the bottom of the bag ripped open with "a noise like a deep grunt." Leaking hydrogen, the Explorer bounced up & down for a half hour before she began to fall at a good clip. To bail out was impossible. "If we get out up here," radioed Major Kepner, "we will blow up like paper bags...
When they were arraigned in court the next day, the prisoners found themselves facing the grave charge of inciting to riot, and were held in the exorbitant bail of one thousand dollars each. The trial held in the police court presided over by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, could hardly be matched for its farcical character. Exposures of perjured testimony for the prosecution were systematically ruled out by the judge as "incompetent," photographs of police violence were barred as evidence, pointed questions asked by the defense attorneys were overruled as often as possible, and in general every effort was made...
...lack of bail Samuel Insull spent only three of last week's seven days as a prisoner of the People. Those three days were passed in the hospital ward of the Cook County jail where the old man gradually recuperated from the fatigue of his involuntary journey back to Chicago from Istanbul (TIME...
...Federal bail had been set at $200,000 which he could not raise himself and which his attorneys could not get reduced. But his three-day imprisonment produced a strange wave of sympathy among Chicagoans whom he never knew. Putting up their property with that of Insull's few friends as security, they induced Fidelity & Casualty Co. to provide the $200,000 bond...
...They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned in Federal Court. Judge John P. Barnes promptly announced that bail would be $200,000. Insull stiffened. Said Junior Insull: "We won't even try to raise that. It's impossible." By 2 p. m. the old man was lodged in the hospital ward of Cook County Jail. Before him lay the possibility of several months behind bars awaiting...