Possible Clues:

• Hung or halted temporarily
• String out journalist temporarily out of work
• Temporary cessation of vital functions
• Poor puss finished, hanged
• American writer upsets editor in South Dakota temporarily out of work
• Interrupted to put off writer
• Postponed; hung
• 50 per cent of suspects stopped getting sentence deferred?
• Sentence for minor offence may be this -- hanging
• Held up in pass -- took legal action about it