Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon Mindoro ("Mine of Gold"), now known as "Malaria Island," are situated the famed Havemeyer sugar plantations. †Once upon a time there eloped from Cavite, ancient Spanish Philippine settlement, a nun and a friar who were pursued by the high sheriff (el corregidor). The nun was caught on a little island off Manila Bay now named Lamonja (the nun) ; the friar on an islet now called El Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns...
...section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough for the trade of immigrant steel workers, have pledged $10,000 to pay some wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy, one office deputy, one plain clothes deputy and four uniformed roadmen to prevent all the county's crime and to catch motor speeders. So they asked Chief Gillen...
...moonless night last week a sheriff and two deputies were sitting in an empty warehouse in Wilson, Ark., smoking meditatively and staring at the lantern that yellowed the ceiling above them and the floor at their feet. At one side, in a huddle of shadow, lay a young man. His name was Albert Blazes. He had attacked a white girl; anyway, the girl said it was a Negro who attacked her, and Albert Blazes was a Negro. The bloodhounds had brought him in. Now the sheriff was holding him until he got what was coming to him; he must know...
...premonitory rumble of trouble issued from the throat of Sheriff George P. Nimmo, summoned from a neighboring county to direct activities in Passaic, when he stood on the mudguard of a red police-car reading a paper to a group of picketers. That paper was a copy of the Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated...
...United Front Committee and a dozen policemen stood around the gnarled bole and listened to him. He asked them to keep the law. He asked them not to commit any disorderly acts. He said that in his opinion the bail of $30,000 fixed for Strike leader Weisbord (whom Sheriff Nimmo had just arrested) was excessive. A police whistle cawed. "Clean 'em up, boys," a voice directed, and the policemen, armed with clubs and shotguns, dissolved the group, hustled Mr. Thomas away to jail. After spending the night there, he was held on $10,000 bail for the grand jury...