Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bermuda with its tropic warmth and transported British Christmas cheer is a very pleasant picture to anticipate. But in any clime Christmas itself isn't such a bad idea. With the prospect of his own vacation right before him, the Vagabond is in no mood to moralize about the spirit...
Philadelphia police officials enthused over the confession, predicted that soon all prisoners would be "gabbed" as well as "mugged."
Window blinds were reeled down, lights were snapped out in the crowded courtroom of a Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court one day last week. On an improvised cinema screen flashed the images of a detective, a stenographer, a glum young man. The young man's lips moved. A loudspeaker blatted: "This...
It was the first "talkie" conviction in a U. S. court. Said Judge James Gay Gordon Jr. in admitting the use of the device to the trial: "Such a confession is more valuable than a mere oral or signed one."
In one day Philadelphia police filmed and recorded confessions of several others besides Robber Roller. Most notable was that of William E. Peters, who before camera and microphone told how he murdered Leona Fischbeck. At his trial his cinema confession will also be used against him.