Word: leaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests" at red-light hotels, many a citizen who could not quickly explain his evening's stroll. Within twelve hours 917 assorted characters were arrested, of whom 271 were found to have police records. Revolvers were taken from a score. Soon the police sieve began to leak. More than half of those arrested were released for lack of evidence. Bondsmen and police court lawyers buzzed busily to free the others. No. 1 gangsters captured: none...
...victims' bloods. Professors Haldane and Hill read newspaper accounts of the driver's jeopardy and voluntarily went to court, where they convinced the magistrate: that the car's exhaust pipe was clogged with water, that the gas had escaped into the closed car through a pipe leak, that the men had died within the short period of 15 minutes because even a slight amount of imbibed alcohol increases a person's susceptibility to carbon monoxide intoxication, that the driver was drunk from gas rather than from beer...