Word: lockup
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...James Henry Rand Jr., wealthy president of Remington Rand Inc., late one evening, marched a grim and agitated agent of the Massachusetts State Income Tax Department. The agent seized 75-year-old James Henry Rand Sr. retired maker of card-index systems, hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail...
...Manhattan Lowell Fess, 35, son of bone-dry U. S. Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, appeared in magistrate's court, shielding his face with a straw hat, having passed the early morning hours in a lockup. He heard himself charged with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from...
...upon William David Goldberg as he was slipping through a back door to the same building with a bundle. "Goldie," as his clients call him, dashed his package to the pavement, smashing its bottles. The agents scooped up a gill of gin as evidence, lugged the legger to the lockup...
...Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop say? The bishop would make him give the goods back? Visions like that would land a boy in the lockup...
These followers of the great Moliere, who was himself once a vagabond, have on occasion received the treatment of vagabonds. At one point the entire troupe was nearly thrown into the lockup when State police mistook the truck and its variegated riders for gypsy bootleggers. On another occasion, when the Players were mistaken for gypsies, they were escorted out of the state...