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...case of self defense," said Maitre Louis Gassin, her principal attorney. "The fact that my client bought two months ago the revolver with which she shot and killed her husband does not indi- cate premeditation. . . . She simply purchased the weapon for use in case of ex-treme emergency to defend her life. How prudent this action...
Robert Nathan never sacrifices a paragraph to a phrase, but every now & then a sentence gives you a quiet wink. ''Her first experiences of marriage, like those of most good women, had left her with the desire to defend herself against strangers...
Hortense Norris, New York's first woman judge (TIME, Feb. 28), continued. In clipped, pseudo-British accents she tried to defend herself from the nips of Harland B. Tibbetts, one of the Seabury legal terriers. In one instance a Methodist Deaconess had brought a 20-year-old Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave...
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