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Justice, long delayed, moved thoroughly. Thirty persons accused of complicity in the Nagyrev poisonings were in Hungarian jails last week. Hungarian police promised that when the trial opened at least 100 would be in the dock...
Richard Corbett, citizen of France, son of an English banker, stood in the iron-railed prisoner's dock at Draguignan in Southern France last week, facing a judge and a jury of hard-faced farmers. Hesitant witnesses told how the accused had learned that his elderly French mother was suffering from an incurable cancer, how he had taken care of her for months; then how, when doctors had given up all hope, he had cleaned his revolver, walked into his mother's bedroom, kissed her, shot her dead, then shot himself but not fatally...
...burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their daughter...
...London magistrate's court a Mrs. Albert Cratchitt, estranged from her husband, was being sued for nonpayment of bills. Trouble reconciled the Cratchitts. In the dock Albert Cratchitt, beaming, prosperous, appeared beside his wife...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...