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Then John Marshall Harlan, shrewd young attorney for the Wendel estate, went to work on the Morris claim. He tore it to shreds. Publishers of the Bible from which the "1876" marriage license blank was torn testified that it could not have been procured earlier than 1913. Handwriting experts showed the flyleaf will to be a bungling fraud. Contemporary evidence proved that Mr. Wendel was not in Dundee in 1901 or in Manhattan in 1906. On St. Patrick's Day, 1908, Claimant Morris was working in an Arizona copper mine. In 1909, said Pullman Co., the Buffington...
...sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that of the entire U. S. cooped up on islands of less total area than California and with...
Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama...
...Advocate has bent too long over the great alembic in which a new President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...
Into night court were hustled half a hundred rioters with torn clothes and bloody heads. One Frederick Bar was still truculent...