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...letter it appeared that Major Judson Hannigan hoped the onetime Kaiser Wilhelm would send an expression of felicitation to be read when there is unveiled at the Massachusetts State House a mural depicting the 104th Regiment's colors being decorated by the French Government. In urging this request, Captain Judson Hannigan wrote to Wilhelm of Doom...
...cannot imagine how anyone can suppose that a request to the Governor to appoint an impartial commission to review the facts can imply any criticism or disrespect for the Supreme Judicial Court or even for the Trial Judge. The Supreme Judicial Court has declared itself precluded by its own decisions from considering the credibility or weight of the testimony offered at the trial or of the affidavits presented as grounds for a new trial. This being so, an appeal to the Governor to appoint a commission a review matters, with which under our system of law the regular judicial machinery...
...request for the resignation of patrolmen Gordon, Culhane, Pryor and Toomey, was the result of a personal interview held on Saturday between President Lowell and Chief McBride of the Cambridge police. Gordon and Pryor officially refused to resign, and Culhane and Toomey, when interviewed, said that they planned to do likewise...
...appeal trial which is scheduled to take place today will be in no way affected by President Lowell's action, it was stated yesterday by both the prosecuting and defensive attorneys Asked by the CRIMSON, if President Lowell's request would injure the government's prosecution or in any way prejudice the jury, District Attorney R. T. Bushnell, prosecuting attorney said, "None whatsoever." Asked of his personal opinion in regard to the President's action, he said, "I am not yet ready to state my opinion, but I will make a statement to the press tomorrow...
...police had overstepped their duties in using clubs in their encounter with the students, which took place over two months ago on February 12. Chief McBride replied that he was not in a position to discharge the men but that he would tell them of President Lowell's request. Later in the day he saw two of the patrolmen, both of whom refused to resign and the other two, when interviewed stated that they had no intentions of giving up their positions...