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...verdict of acquittal, given after five hours of deliberation, was the signal for what the press described as "one of the most remarkable demonstrations ever seen in a New York courtroom." Fallon, who never lost his poise, even during the anxious hours of the jury's deliberation, thanked each juror individually and then was carried by his friends to a waiting automobile. The next day he held what amounted to a reception in a box at the baseball game at the Polo Grounds...
...yourself be misled by the eloquence of this very wily and resourceful attorney, my adversary. Keep close to the facts, and if you do that we have no fear. If this jury should fail to agree to vindicate this lady triumphantly, she would go out of this courtroom a bowed and sorrowful lady. She wants to go home to her children. She wants to take them into her arms and look into their eyes and tell them that she has never disgraced them. She has done nothing in her whole life that hasn't been open to the public gaze...
...Woman on the Jury. When friends are gathered together in the name of courtroom melodrama one is bound to grant certain of the author's requests. One cannot protest that he has met the District Attorney so many times "before that he really would prefer a change; likewise the counsel for the defense; and the Irish detective. But the woman in the jury box is a newcomer, and for her sake it was that this program of events was scheduled...
...midst of the solidly respectable surroundings of an English courtroom the opinion was recently handed down that "ghosts in these days enhance the value of property." It is not recorded that either Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nor Sir Oliver Lodge were involved in the point at issue, but at last the financial status of a ghostship, long ago explained to a doubting world in Frank Stockton's inimitable stories, has achieved the prestige of recognition from the British...
...aroused, takes the dare and forthwith sues Judy for breach of promise. After a day has been set for the trial of the case. Jim secretly visits several old and trusty friends and persuades them to act as judges at the trial. He succeeds in his purpose and the courtroom is packed with a mock jury, which rules that the unsuspecting Judy shall pay to Jim $100,000 as the price of her broken word...