red-lamp-handed

Updated: May 4, 2025

Lieutenant Fabius, of the Dutch gendai'merie, entered the house and caught an Italian officer, Colonel Muricchio, red-lamp-handed. Again no trial was allowed. It was pleaded that the Capitulations had not been abrogated! And the officer was released.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle