Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...home. It was not the first time that Belle Livingstone-who tells stories about her friends Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Kitchener, Edward VII, King Leopold of the Belgians-has run afoul of the National Prohibition Act. Last April her speak-easy on Park Avenue was padlocked; she was released on bail. Although she did not know it, she was indicted on this charge fortnight ago. Her latest place-formally titled The Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club-was run along the same general lines as her Park Avenue establishment: $1 drinks, select clientele, open all night. It was an elaborate, three-storied...
...which provides that anyone unable to earn an honest living may be sentenced to six months on the rockpile. Although not endorsed by the Bar Association, Judge Lyle was easily re-elected last month. As accused under-worldlings are brought before him, he violently lectures them, brusquely sets their bail at $10,000 or more. He it was who detained Jack Guzick for Federal trial, and Jack's brother Harry has also been indicted. Sample of Judge Lyle's talk: "I don't get a kick out of punishing people, but I do relish the opportunity...
Last week, radiant at the prospect of getting more & more of the 26 Enemies before him, Judge Lyle ordered Sammons held in $150,000 bond for Federal prosecution on hijacking charges. He cancelled all bail for Gang Leader Frank Nitti...
...Philadelphia. Another failure which was direct aftermath of the September decline was that of C. Clothier Jones & Co., New York and Philadelphia brokerage house whose socialite partners include Richard Norris Williams II, onetime U. S. tennis champion. Each partner has been charged with fraud, four are out on bail. The firm was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended while Partner Jones was on his way to New York, delayed by New Jersey grass-fires...
Detectives got busy. Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran was haled into court, held in $20,000 bail, charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to defraud. William Wilbur J. Cooke prudently disappeared. Also missing was a Mrs. E. E. Caroline Saunders of New York. Meanwhile Inspector Warren H. Liese of the Boston Bureau of Criminal Investigation journeyed to New York, added immeasurably to the detective-story air of the whole business by producing the traditional sinister oriental, an expert Japanese repairer of antique porcelain who labors in a little art shop on Sixth Avenue, Manhattan and is known as "Mr. Chicago." Inspector...