Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph and fingerprint Holland, he resisted and later claimed to have been " beaten up" by the police. His charges were referred to the Grand Jury, but it has done nothing (not being in session during July). However, the three I. W. W. were released and, as they left the jail, were kidnaped by a group of men. According to some reports they were "beaten up," according to others, murdered. Holland, at least, was not killed. From a hospital "somewhere" he filed a $50,000 libel suit against a Port Arthur paper for a story printed about him when...
...their members. Their plan was ingeniously simple. Orders went forth from headquarters in San Francisco, Chicago, New York for footloose I. W. W. to start for Port Arthur. It was claimed that 20,000 were on their way. They were to be arrested for vagrancy, and once in jail, "eat the town out of house and home...
...feet" over a field used for exhibitions and demonstrations. But it does not clearly cover some parts of the fields where crowds may be collected?outside the entrances, or where the cars are parked?and provides for the absurd fine of not less than $300, or 90 days in jail...
...doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung's place in the Oriental jail-and Kai Lung, happily bribed, and urbane as ever, departed for the house of his fathers with his bride, the Golden Mouse. "Venerated Father," exclaimed Kai Lung, "this is she who has been destined from the beginning of time to raise up a hundred sons to keep your life extant...
Sarjyut Shankerlal, recently released from Yeravda jail, where he was a fellow-prisoner of Mahatma Gandhi, contributed an article to Young India of Bombay, in which he described the existence of Gandhi in jail...