Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before dawn, two men entered the home of Sheriff Carl Emison at Alamo and demanded the prisoner. Sheriff Emison hid the jail keys under a divan, tried to outtalk his visitors. A few minutes later the angry Mob arrived. Before they battered down his door, he opened it. They found his keys...
...State's Attorney of Kane County, Ill., on a reform platform. He pledged himself to dry up the county in general and the city of Aurora (to Chicago: 40 miles) in particular. Last week his enforcement promise produced: one dead woman, one man with a fractured skull, one deputy sheriff with a bullet in his leg, popular resentment so strong that the State of Illinois had to step in and take over the consequences of his official zeal...
Last week Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, fat, officious, went to the De King home with the warrant. It was 9 p. m. De King refused to let him in. Smith went away, returned before midnight with three more deputies. They surrounded the house, threw mustard bombs, rushed the door. De King was clubbed into unconsciousness. Lillian De King, his wife, was at a telephone, screaming "Help! Help!" over the wire to their lawyer. Deputy Sheriff Smith fired a shotgun loaded with slugs point- blank into her abdomen. She wilted to the floor, dead. Gerald De King, 12-year...
...Said Sheriff Smith from his hospital bed: "I wish there was no such thing as prohibition. I'm through with it. . . . Try to enforce the law and see what happens...
...once of Big Business-U. S. Steel Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Motors, etc., etc. But for every billion-dollar corporation there are countless thousand-dollar corporations. For every Big Business that worries about the anti-trust law there are many small businesses that worry about the sheriff. And perhaps it is the little business that moves in the most mysterious ways its wonders to perform...