Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the murder indictment was announced. Ab Walker was promptly jailed. Two days later he was released on $25.000 bail, after the prosecutor had indicated in court that he lacked sufficient evidence to press a first-degree charge, punishable by death, against the defendant...
...after her indictment she gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent of the prosecutor...
...Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last week six of them pledged half a million dollars' worth of property to bail out John B. Williams, an aged merchandise broker who killed his son-in-law for beating his wife...
...spread his gospel. Between campaigns he threw himself into labor disputes, less as an agitator or organizer than as a defender of civil rights. For publicly denouncing the Riot Act to strikers from the Passaic, N. J. textile mills in 1926, he was arrested, jailed, held in $10,000 bail. He was again seized last year for picketing with strikers from the Paterson silk mills. Only last October did he formally demit the Presbyterian ministry...
...Manhattan, William Eisen paytelephoned, got the wrong number. Patient, he inserted another nickel, was successful, decided to ask the operator to return his first nickel, put in a third. When she refused, William Eisen, swearing loudly, flung away the receiver, smashed it, was arrested, paid $50 bail...