Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather be wrong on my law than give my sanction to legal nonsense. They say justice is blind but it is not blind as a bat." Judge Lowell's decision did not actually free George Crawford because Massachusetts continued to hold the prisoner on $25,000 bail pending an appeal to a special session of the U. S. Circuit Court later this month. But it did send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right...
...over to them?" angrily demanded Attorney Foley. "If I get an even break, I am going to put everybody involved in jail!" Seeking a case to peg a general assault on the whole corrupt kosher poultry racket, Attorney Foley clapped his fright- ened witnesses in prison, set their bail at $25,000 apiece. When two days later, an unknown benefactor turned up with their bond, the partners became thoroughly alarmed. "We don't want to go out," they anxiously told Mr. Foley. "None of our people bailed us out. We want to stay in." Mr. Foley found that...
...Sunday Argentine fans reach a fine pitch of emotion. Last week, as Argentine's autumn got under way, Sunday crowds saw many a fine futbol game. At one a River Plate player assaulted and broke the jaw of an opponent. He was held for trial on $5,000 bail. Another was arrested for kicking his opponent in the stomach. Exhilarated, the crowd began to throw rocks at the players. Some took out revolvers and fired furiously into the melee on the field. After one game last week futbol fans set fire to the stadium...
Thoughtfully considering the size of Britain's embargo gun, Moscow authorities proceeded with plans for the trial of the British engineers but made several concessions. All but one of the prisoners, W. H. MacDonald, were released on bail. Though they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk...
...summon his own chauffeur, he was whisked downtown to a Federal judge in an automobile which the marshal had hastily borrowed. One of the prisoner's battalion of lawyers, Robert H. Thayer, suddenly called from a party, arrived in the courtroom in evening clothes, arranged for $10,000 bail. Two hours later the U. S. marshal dropped the prisoner at No. 934 Fifth...