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...four men indicted were: Norman H. Krause, 44, bar owner and ex-Los Angeles policeman, who in 1950 did arrest two employees of then-Controller Kuchel's office for drunkenness; Jack D. Clemmons, 41, a Los Angeles police sergeant until his resignation two weeks ago; John F. Fergus, 47, until recently a public relations man for Eversharp, Inc., who in 1947 was charged with possession of a concealed weapon and given a suspended sentence, and Francis A. Capell, 57, of Zarephath, N.J., publisher of a rightist newspaper, Herald of Freedom, and author of a pamphlet entitled The Strange Death...
...know a retired policeman on the vice squad in New York City. He told me they used to beat up prisoners with rubber hoses, but he insisted that they did it only to prisoners they knew were guilty. I wonder how prevalent in the U.S. today this philosophy is among policemen...
...draws an automatic pistol. One court official drops, shot twice in the stomach and once in the leg. The court usher charges boldly, then sprawls dead with three methodically aimed bullets in him. The judge intervenes, only to slump in his robes, critically wounded by four slugs. Finally a policeman slips behind the general, cuts him down with a burst from his submachine gun. Dying on the courtroom floor, General Concaro gasps: "I shot as a protest against bureaucracy. I am only sorry I fell in such a dishonorable way-shot in the back...
...even seemed mysterious. At the time only three jobs had been assigned--one to Bernard Ruggieri, a favorite Kennedy campaign assistant and a former assistant to Mayor Wagner; one to George Van Lengen, a graduate of Harvard Law School; and sergeant-at-arms to a former New York City policeman and military horo from Westchester, the province of one of the anti-Wagner coalition's main supporters James Luddy. The motive behind such a letter, with its frigid, openly hostile tone, could only be anger, which seems peculiar from a man who professed indifference to the Albany out-come...
...state courts have already found themselves grappling with Escobedo's scope and retroactivity. Items: > In Providence, Escobedo has just reached down as far as traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose car was involved in a collision at a Providence intersection. A policeman asked Gonsalves if he had stopped before proceeding with caution past a flashing red traffic light. When Gonsalves said no, the cop issued an on-the-spot summons. Because the cop failed to warn Gonsalves that he did not have to answer and could consult a lawyer, Police Court Judge...