Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corner of 97th St.). They searched the maid's room and found the missing articles. In court Miss Bernhardt wept on her mistress' shoulder, asked for a chance to prove that she was innocent. Mrs. Harrison relented and asked Magistrate McKiniry not to send the girl to jail. He said he was sorry but had no choice. He held her for want of $2,500 bail for action by a grand jury...
...attempted to hold a meeting in a half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...
...Philadelphia draft-dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll continued to cool his heels in the jail at Mosbach, Germany, last week (TIME...
Miss Rambeau is called upon to solve again the old problem of how far a wife should go to keep her husband out of the villain's clutches. The clutches in this case mean a jail term. As usual the villain has loved the wife. This calls inevitably for a scene in the villain's bedroom with the wife preserving her self-respect at the point of a gun. There is a backspin on the ending, unusually sharp but scarcely worth the depression of the first three acts...
Deportations Begun. Without issuing previous warnings, the Attorney General of Mexico ordered the arrest and deportation of all priests who are not native Mexicans. A few hours later Mexican soldiers marched into numerous churches, seized the officiating clergy, marched them off to jail without so much as allowing them to change their vestments or obtain personal belongings from their homes...