Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily. "Then good evening, gentlemen," and sank back weakly on his pillow...
Last fortnight Editor Bangs was jailed on charges of criminal libel against the banks. Out on bail he found that electricity, gas, steam had been shut off from his plant. Then Editor Bangs's readers did for him what New York Times readers probably would not do for Adolph Ochs. Women's organizations hurried to the News plant with lanterns. Farmers drove in with gasoline pressure lamps. Friends rigged a gasoline melting pot for linotype metal. Willing, brawny arms hauled an old automobile into the plant, hitched its engine to the News press. Crowds milled around the doors...
...south to Toronto to be arrested. On arrival he was introduced to Detective Sergeant Ewing, shook hands heartily. The State of Illinois had added to the charges of larceny and embezzlement for which he was arrested last October, the new charge of "theft by bailee." Released on $5,000 bail he returned to his boarding house in Orillia to await a formal extradition hearing...
Bang! went Surrogate James A. Foley's gavel. He indignantly dismissed the Morris claim as "false and a forgery." Promptly the District Attorney had Claimant Morris jailed in default of $10,000 bail as a material witness for the Grand Jury. Claimant Morris, no intellectual giant, seemed dazed at this upshot, mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner...
...received no reply to letters asking that certain bonds be sold or returned. Police investigation revealed that Banker O'Connell was missing. Discovered in California, he was indicted for grand larceny, accused of absconding with $500,000. Pleading guilty to one count, he was freed under $25,000 bail, with trial set for this week. Meanwhile last week the bankruptcy schedules filed by Daniel O'Connell Co. Inc. revealed that the Catholic clergy had lost more than $1,000,000 through their investments. The Bishop of Springfield, Mass. was listed as an unsecured creditor...