Word: sheriff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago Farmers Archie Clark and Oliver Lankford of Kaskaskia, involved with a group of Missouri farmers in a title dispute over a pasture in the Commons, were arrested for trespassing by Sheriff Henry Drury of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., clapped into his jail for seven days. Farmers Clark and Lankford, charging the complainants and Sheriff Drury with false arrest on the ground that they were arrested in Illinois and jailed in Missouri, last week got their $200,000 damage suit before Judge Moore. The defendants produced some witnesses old enough to recall how the river had changed its course...
Gulla Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor...
Hollywood police received an alarm that Cinemactor Victor McLaglen had been kidnapped at the point of a gun in front of a filling station. The sheriff's office presently set the police right: the "kidnappers"' were deputy sheriffs, their victim Victor's brother Capt, Sidney Leopold McLaglen, 48, accused of having attempted to extort $20,000 from Millionaire-Sportsman-Photographer Phillip Mattiessen Chancellor...
...Large numbers of thugs, gangsters and racketeers have assembled on and about the premises. Mr. O'Hara, the managing director of the race-track, has imported known criminals into the State to coerce and frighten public officials. He has illegally interfered with the conduct of office of the former sheriff of the county, so as to require the removal of that sheriff. (This refers, among other matters, to the charge that this sheriff appointed deputy sheriffs who had criminal records...
...Chadron, Neb., two men arrived at the town jail to visit their inmate brother. Sheriff William Moody locked them up with their brother, promptly forgot them, went off to a meeting in another town. Several hours later he remembered, telephoned his wife to release them...