Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week by an automobile that swept around a corner on H Street as he was taking his constitutional. One of of secret service guardians snatched him from harm's way. Another jumped on the car's running board and had the driver arrested by the nearest policeman. The fellow was charged with cutting corners and failing to give the right of way to pedestrians, was bailed...
From this common beginning the several stories of what then followed divericate. According to his account, as he had just finished eating he was suddenly placed under arrest, struck twice on the head so that his blood flowed, while the offending policeman deputized several onlookers to take him, unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking...
...East Orange, N. J., an automobile containing an old gentleman drew up beside a traffic policeman. The occupant asked the way to Perth Amboy, and received polite directions. "How many children have you?" asked the old man. "Three, sir," replied the officer. The old man stretched out a hand and dropped five dimes into the stout fist of the patrolman. Said...
Personally I wonder where the Policeman was in all the weeks of the petty persecution. It was deplorable...
What was her name? That was what the policeman wanted to know...