Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Policeman. Meantime, Referee Seabury's inquiry into the lower courts, oldest of his three current inquisitions, suddenly bore more fruit after a hiatus of several weeks. Policeman Richard B. Ganly, onetime vice squad member, was sentenced to from four to eight years in Sing Sing for testifying falsely against a woman in a specious prostitution case. Policeman Ganly is the second vice squad man to .be sentenced from testimony dug up by the Seabury investigation. His counsel pleaded that he be sent to a Federal penitentiary rather than to the State's prison. Two months ago Policeman Ganly...
Only the school janitor, William Hunter, kept calm. He flung himself on the beast's back, grappled, kicked. Presently Policeman .Howard McMiller ran in to help him. After a fierce struggle, McMiller drew his revolver. Trained to fear firearms, the lioness skulked to a corner...
...Paoli, Pa., Edward Walters, 15, walked into a store, calmly cleaned out the contents of the cash-register, marched out again. Chased by a policeman, he fled along a railroad embankment, when suddenly he caught sight of an express train bearing down on him and his pursuer from behind. Realizing that the policeman was unaware of the express, he turned, tackled the officer, rolled down the embankment with him, where he was arrested. In court, Edward Walters returned the stolen money, heard himself praised as a lifesaver, received from the policeman money enough to get back to Cleveland, his home...
...Last week Killer Burke at St. Joseph, Mich, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a policeman in December...
...sticks of it in a burlap bag on the highway, thought he might capitalize his find. A policeman stopped...