Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring near drab little Uniontown, Pa. one evening last September, the local district attorney and a county detective encountered an automobile careening crazily down the road, stopped it, arrested the driver for drunken driving. He was Frank C. Monaghan, a 64-year-old Uniontown hotel man. The detective took the old man's wheel. The district attorney drove ahead, returned when he saw that the second car was not following. He found the detective staggering down the road, bleeding from a knife wound. Frank Monaghan was hauled to police headquarters for questioning. There that night he died, of "heart...
...Sorpresa, the Provincial Chief of Detectives, famed Fernandez Bazan, began to round up suspects. The truck driver, one La Fuente, who had carried Father Pereyra Iraola's baggage from San Simon and had left just before the kidnapping, was dismissed after claiming that two unknown men had asked him for road directions. Two neighborhood vagrants, a Russian and an Italian, were vainly questioned. Then police captured a thick-witted peon named José Gancedo who had disappeared from La Sorpresa the night of the kidnapping, and who aroused further suspicion by failing to explain where...
...York City roofing contractor named Isadore Rauch: ''You better have those brakes fixed or you'll be getting into trouble," Contractor Rauch replied that he could not afford to. Last August, Contractor Rauch ordered Negro Louis Washington to make a delivery in the truck. Driver Washington lost control of it in Jamaica, could not stop until after he had run down and killed Mrs. Katherine Brown, a 57-year-old Negro...
Paramount issue in the argument which involved claims for damages on the grounds that insanity had resulted from the narrow escape of being run down by a truck were the questions of negligence on the part of the driver and the legality of certain hearsay evidence. Lawyers for the defendant delivery company earned their decision by disclaiming the plea of Insanity...
...London, haled into a Bromley court for speeding and fined $7.50, Hearse Driver Alfred Thomas protested: "I was en route to a burial at sea, and was in a hurry to catch the tide...