Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Honus ("Hans") Wagner, onetime Pittsburgh baseball Titan, has entered politics. Last week, large placards appeared about Pittsburgh bear- ing the words: FOR SHERIFF*−J. HANS WAGNER. There was a picture of Honus in the uniform of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each spring, Wagner once more dons his uniform, plays "sandlot" ball. If the sheriffalty does not prevent, he is expected to play this year with the "Elks" of the Allegheny County (Pa.) League...
...another year, the sheriff, his deputy or a constable will continue to whip in Sussex and Kent Counties ; the Board of Trustees of the Workhouse in New Castle County, through their "keepers, officers, agents and servants," will whip on. They will continue on this schedule...
Again, last week guns spat. Four bodies were carried to the undertaker's. Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who left Herrin last fall, after an affair in which six were taken to the undertakers, gave notice that he was going to return to town. According to reports. S. Glenn Young, his feud enemy, Ku Klux Klan leader in a number of dry raids, paraded the streets all one day waiting for Sheriff Thomas; with him were a dozen supporters; towards evening, Thomas met Young at the European Hotel; someone-said to be Young-opened fire. Young, Sheriff Thomas...
...Association fof New York City, has declared that more hotels are now being built than there is need for, and that this may bring on serious difficulties to the whole hotel industry. He recalled the dark days of 1903-04, when one Manhattan hotel failed so often that the Sheriff had to board in it to fulfil his duties...
...questions put by Subscriber Klopp well merit answers. These answers vary from state to state, but in general: 1) Grand Jury lists are selected from petit jury lists by a sheriff or some other county official; from this list the names of grand jurors are drawn by lot; 2) a grand jury has 13 to 24 members; 3) it usually sits throughout a court term; 4) pay is nominal...