Word: frame-up
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...Holman, fulminating about a "dastardly frame-up ... a piece of savagery" sped to Winston-Salem to fight for his daughter's freedom. But Mrs. Reynolds did not immediately appear to answer the charge. She was. her father said, in seclusion recovering from shock. Four days 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...
...deed. Mooney and [Warren K.] Billings entered into a conspiracy to terrify the citizens by exploding a bomb. Billings, tool and agent of Mooney, carried the bomb in a suitcase. . . . Mooney has not presented any facts in support of his petition which have not heretofore been presented. . . . The 'frame-up' story has been exploded as was the suitcase containing the bomb. . . . The apotheosis of Tom Mooney by the oratorical Mayor of New York brought tears to the eyes of many of his auditors who failed to realize that he was merely indulging in forensic hyperbole...
...Means ever to have entered the White House to see Mrs. Harding, as he claimed. Also she was shown a long affidavit by Gaston B. Means in which he declared that all his testimony before the Senate Investigating Committee - a foundation for The Strange Death-was "false and a frame-up." Wrote Mrs. Thacker...
...Detective Andrew G. McLaughlin, against whom the mysteriously murdered Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon brought frame-up charges, was dismissed from the Police force. In the vice investigation he had refused to explain how he had banked $35,800.51 during two years when his salary...
...charged with criminal syndicalism, on the strength of the story of the Department of Justice agent as retold above. Kassay was said to have described himself as a Communist, a former captain in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He denied both of these allegations, denied the sabotage, spoke of a "frame...