"Police department" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and coining, and certain cases of outrage on public morals, came before the Ten; and it was always open to the College to remove a case from the ordinary courts to the Ten, when State reasons rendered it expedient to do so. In the Police department the Esecutori contro la Bestemmia, and in Finance the Camerlenghi, were officers of that Council. In the War Office the artillery was under their control; and in the arsenal certain galleys, marked C.X., ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various
... letter should go astray. It shall happen, monsieur, that the whole world shall hear with amazement of that most marvellous 'Cleek'—that great reader of riddles and unmasker of evildoers who, in the past year, has made the police department of England the envy of all nations; and it shall happen also that I who dare not appeal to the police of France appeal to the mercy, the humanity, of this great man, as it is my only hope. Monsieur, you have his ear, you have his confidence, you have the means at your command. Ah! ask him, pray ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... 1910: Arrested in Los Angeles charged with uttering fictitious checks. In simple language this means just a little bit of forgery. Los Angeles Police Department file, ...
— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak
... no record either in the reports for that year of the police department, or from any official babbling, or from later yarns spun by the sixteen prisoners, of what really occurred on the deck of that steamer while she was going up the bay. Newspapers of the time gave generous space to speculations written up on the facts discovered by ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... 20, 1949, members of the Vice Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department, at the direction of Inspector Craig Ellis, head of the Vice Squad, commenced a series of mass raids upon book stores and booksellers in Philadelphia. Inspector Ellis gave his men a list of books that in his opinion were obscene, ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... of the Provisional Government were again published. Caussidiere and Sobrier were confirmed in the police department, and Etienne Arago in that of the post-office. Merchants of provisions were recommended to supply all who were in need; and the people were recommended to still retain their arms. The Chamber of Deputies was dissolved, the Peers were ...
— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg
... Herr Assessor Stroebel. I wanted to say that in the Police Department it is like this: Everything you do is all right, if it ...
— Moral • Ludwig Thoma
... silent? And agonizing days and nights followed for Ivan Dmitritch. Everyone who passed by the windows or came into the yard seemed to him a spy or a detective. At midday the chief of the police usually drove down the street with a pair of horses; he was going from his estate near the town to the police department; but Ivan Dmitritch fancied every time that he was driving especially quickly, and that he had a peculiar expression: it was evident that he was in haste to announce that there was a very important criminal ...
— The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... customary statistics and final hurrah, with its unconscious sarcasm: "We are happy in being able to state that this is the forty-seventh boy arrested by this gallant officer since the new ordinance went into effect. The most extraordinary activity prevails in the police department. Nothing like it has been seen since ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... "New Orleans police department claims party not there. Left for Mexico three weeks ago. Ascertain correct destination and wire ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne |
