Word: trial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...
...jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial "while only three were acquitted-a doorman and two women entertainers" (Mary Louise ["Texas"] Guinan and Helen Morgan...
...spectator at the trial was the Lord Bishop of Aberdeen, clad in black knee breeches, black gaiters. Another spectator: Edgar Wallace of England, author of many crime books, who said: "It is an open secret in New York that Rothstein was killed by a 'hophead' [narcotics addict] whom he owed an insignificant...
...throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...