Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them to jail; introducing them to certain bondsmen and "lawyers" who, for fat cash fees, hold "conversations" with the night court judges, get the cases dismissed, keep the victims' names out of the newspapers...
...duty, plus $158,000 fine, plus sundry costs. As it is, he only pays the U. S. his back taxes plus a $10,000 fine (about 2% per annum on the tax money which he has enjoyed for three years). He will also serve 18 months in jail (where he will be temporarily safe from sudden death). Already convicted on similar tax charges are Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might...
...Jonesboro, Ark., Raymond Martin, charged with possessing corn whiskey, explained: "We tried everything to relieve my sister, but nothing did any good. So finally we started giving her corn liquor baths. And now she is well." Said the Judge: "$50 . . . jail...
Theodore Dreiser?"Without his pioneering I doubt if any of us [U.S. authors] could, unless we liked to be sent to jail, seek to express life, beauty and terror...
...unnecessary interruption of their services, cried denunciations. Several ran after the ejected little judge. One man hit him on the head. Two, three men kicked him. A woman screamed: "You ought to be lynched." Police took him to a police station, booked him for disorderly conduct, but did not jail him. The commotion was an eruption of long-burning fires within Bishop Manning's diocese. Many of his clergy dislike him as a bishop. To the run of New York Episcopalians he seems benign; to intimates he seems charming; to the clergy who disagree with his authority he seems...