Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordered an inquiry. Later in the day the village of Buda, near Austin, was agog. A pretty girl, after hanging around the Farmers' National Bank all morning, had whipped out an automatic pistol, backed the cashier and bookkeeper into the vault, grabbed $1,000 in bills and fled in her waiting coupé. That night, on identification of the bank employes, the Buda sheriff had Governor-elect Dan Moody's stenographer in custody. Public opinion was more perplexed than outraged. At the University of Texas, where she was earning an M. A. despite her full-time hours...
When the U.S. recognized Senor Adolfo Diaz (Conservative) as President of Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29) Secretary Kellogg called attention to the fact that Dr. Juan Sacasa (Liberal) was not in Nicaragua. Dr. Sacasa fled from the country of which he was Vice President on the occasion of the coup d'Liberals, "Juan Sacasa, whose term as Vice President does not expire until 1929, has become the true and rightful President of Nicaragua...
...Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating them, when suddenly Margon broke loose from his bride and fled, looking back at one Jose Dueno, who had just entered court. The blackamoor steward, recaptured, was locked up in jail on a charge of bigamy. He had allegedly married, two weeks previously, Mr. Dueno's sister. I was vexed...
Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
...bought his office-yet no formal charge was ever made against him and he was never brought to trial. He was released when the armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin entered Peking on Apr. 10, 1926. On that day the chief executive, Tuan Chi-jui, fled from the presidential mansion to the foreign legation quarter in Peking and thence to a foreign concession in Tientsin, where he now resides...