Word: retrials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scotchman, spent time and money attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers...
...Virginia convicted him of violating the Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...
...Desert Rat never touched his for tune. At once, the American Smelting & Refining Co. asked a retrial, and 18 months passed before it was denied. Carson, ill in a San Francisco hospital, again reached the front pages: "No, I will not be a philanthropist. It would only create an other army of grafters. Perhaps I will raise trees. Even if I'm rich now, I don't believe any woman is going to get me" In March, 1927, while the case was on appeal, he became the fifth husband of Mrs. Hersee Gross. At the Fairmont Hotel...
Another Negro, one Pete Chester, had killed Policeman P. P, Jones of Houston last year. Chester was sentenced to death, but got a retrial this spring before District Judge C. T. Harper, who had himself just been acquitted of killing a man in a roadside row. Judge Harper's lawyer argued Chester's case before Judge Harper and the Negro got off with a sentence of four years. Because of the lightness of this sentence, the Houston police force was restive after Detective Davis' death...
With the Sinclair, Day and Burns sentences recorded, the Federal prosecution prepared to act against each & every one of the 14 Burns detectives employed in the jury-shadowing; prepared also for a retrial of the Fall-Sinclair criminal conspiracy case itself, to begin April...