Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking the Hint. Later in the week, when the 15 prisoners were released on a $1,000 bond each, Henry told them that the guard would not interfere in anything that happened between them and photographers waiting outside the town jail. The released prisoners took the hint. While guardsmen watched, the photographers were left to defend themselves in a free-swinging sidewalk brawl. When the newsmen angrily protested being denied protection on a public street, Henry barked: "I don't have to defend myself to you people...
...double pay. Lyon's growing reputation finally got him into trouble. A Philadelphia bank had been robbed, and people said nobody could have got past its locks and bars except Blacksmith Lyon, who had recently repaired them. Protesting manfully, he was arrested and clapped in Walnut Street jail...
...commissioned a portrait. He had no wish to be portrayed as a gentleman, he informed the startled John Neagle, but as a workingman. Yet the canvas must be splendid. It must show him lifesize, laboring honestly at his forge. And in the background must be seen the accursed jail from which providence had rescued him, its cupola topped by a weather vane of crossed keys...
...boat. And spirited Yvonne keeps sneaking out of the seraglio to sigh against Ray's shoulder and warn him to be careful. Ray has scarcely time left over to retrieve the missing husband, dispose of Badman Lederer, spurn Maureen, see Rains led off to jail, and walk into the blue dawn with lovely, cat-eyed Yvonne...
...Fixers. In Huntsville, Ala., after appearing at the jail while a friend arrested for highway intoxication was bailed out, County Commissioner James H. Turner was locked up on the same charge, managed to bail himself out a few hours later, just before the friend reappeared to free him and was jailed a second time for highway intoxication...