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...bailee is "on a string," and the bondsmen "may pull the string whenever they please." The bondsmen may "pursue him into another state, may arrest him on the Sabbath; and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." In retrieving a prisoner from another state, the bondsman needs no warrant, only a court document called a "bail piece," which states his bail relationship to the defendant...
...garter that converts to a gas mask-but she has not a chance of escaping the banalities of her script. CBS's The Wild, Wild West and Ulysses S. Grant ("The nation is in a pot of trouble, boy") enlist Major James West as a post-Civil War Bondsman. He is outfitted with his own railroad car replete with pool table, cues that unsheath to become sabers, billiard balls that detonate as hand grenades. But such gimmickery is simply cumbersome. Except for President Grant, who needs...
...familiar with the problems. Most judges set bail according to the crime. They give little consideration to a defendant's background, character or financial status. And the man who holds the key to freedom is not even a member of the court; he is a professional bondsman, in business to make money, understandably leary of poor defendants who can neither put up collateral nor pay the usual fee: $100 for each $1,000 of bail. But what to do about it? By far the most impressive answers came not from a lawman but from a retired chemical engineer named...
...Your report on two outstandingly successful businessmen in the Aug. 23 issue indicates that today's leaders have as little leisure time as a bondsman in the days of feudalism. Tomato Man Norton Simon "works seven days a week," and the Italian textile magnate "Bassetti works a 16-hour day seven days a week." Long hours are still apparently a most important ingredient in the successful business administrator's makeup...
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