Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patrolmen Sheehan and Gillee took note. "An anarchist, maybe!" said Patrolman Gillee. On seeing a great lout, lumbering along the nearly deserted street, firing off a gun in crazy fashion they were convinced. Overtaking Patrolman Burns, they whacked his head with clubs, searched him for explosives, found his police shield...
Consul Chapman, succored by friends, expressed the opinion that the man who had fired upon him was "simply an anarchist"; and declared himself unable to imagine any motive for the crime. Observers remembered that the U. S. Consulate at Puerto Mexico, was established only last March...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...
Frank P. Sibley, Boston reporter, said that during the trial Judge Thayer repeatedly discussed the case with reporters, that Judge Thayer said: "I'll show them that no long-haired anarchist from California can run this court." The "long-haired anarchist" was Fred H. Moore, defense attorney, who had a reputation for defending radicals. Mr. Sibley added that Judge Thayer often called defense attorneys "those damn fools...
...Elizabeth R. Bernkopf, who covered for the International News motions made in 1923 for a retrial, said that Judge Thayer presented her with an unsolicited autographed photograph of himself and referred to Attorney Moore as a "long-haired anarchist." He said he could not be "hoodwinked" and that nobody "could put anything over...