Word: jails
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Word sped around town that the guilty Negro was under arrest. A crowd began to gather before the jail. By midnight it numbered nearly 2,000 and became threatening. Solicitor General Hartridge, from the steps of the jail, ordered the crowd to disperse, declaring that the authorities were determined to protect the prisoner. The crowd grumbled and remained. The police were powerless to disperse it. The crowd appeared ready to rush the jail. Sheriff Dixon, revolver in hand, commanded firemen to turn their hoses into the mob. Half a dozen streams of water shot out. The crowd returned fire with...
Meanwhile the Mayor of Savannah had established communication with Governor Hardwick. The Governor declared the city in a state of insurrection and proclaimed martial law. Troops marched in, every approach to the jail was blocked, and no pedestrian or vehicle was allowed to draw near. Incidentally...
...prisoner has ever been taken from Chatham County jail...
...Provisional President of Africa, Marcus Garvey, convicted of using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...
Baron Krupp von Bohlen: "Still in the Düsseldorf jail, I have grown considerably thinner...