Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York William Remington, former Government economist, was found guilty last week of perjury on two counts: 1) denying he had passed secret information to onetime Communist Spy Elizabeth Bentley, and 2) denying that he knew about the existence of a Young Communist League chapter at Dartmouth while a student there. The U.S. court of appeals had set aside Remington's first conviction...
...Derek Bentley gave up without a struggle when London cops in search of burglars cornered him one night last November on the warehouse roof of Messrs. Barlow & Parker, confectioners. Police took his knife and knuckle-duster from him, then turned their attention to his accomplice, a desperate 16-year-old named Christopher Craig...
...want me, well, come and get me," growled Craig. Bentley, though already under arrest, shouted to his pal: "Let him have it, Chris!" Chris Craig emptied his Colt automatic, and one of its .45-cal. slugs killed Police Constable Sidney Miles. The cops, prohibited by English law from carrying firearms, had to rush a man to the nearest station house to sign an emergency application and get a pistol. When it arrived, Detective-Constable Fairfax opened fire. Craig, unhit but scared, jumped 25 feet to the ground and was captured...
Partner in Crime. Under the law, Derek Bentley, as a partner in a crime which culminated in murder, was as guilty as the one who pulled the trigger. Thus instructed by the trial judge, a jury in Old Bailey found both Craig and Bentley guilty of murder. Craig was only sentenced to jail, because he was under 18. But for Derek Bentley, a hapless lad of 19 who has been described as "three-quarter-witted," Lord Chief Justice Goddard grimly donned the black cap to pronounce the death sentence. Since the jury had recommended mercy, many Britons expected Britain...
Telegrams of protest poured into the House of Commons. A band of 50 M.P.s, mostly Bevanites, tried to debate the subject and were ruled out of order. Then Nye Bevan led a deputation representing 150 M.P.s to Sir David's office-without success. Bentley's parents appealed to Prime Minister Churchill, to the Duke of Edinburgh, to Queen Elizabeth herself...