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...only after persuasion from the Stolls. Things began to look bad for Robinson Sr., however, when Government agents revealed that they had found in his Nashville home a floor plan of his son's Indianapolis hideout. But the Louisville jury took only seven and a half hours to acquit both Father and Wife Robinson. The latter announced that she would forthwith seek divorce from her fugitive husband on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. During their engagement, he shot...
...last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these is "a special dispatch to "The New York Times of July 2, 1924, which appeared under this headline: FRENCH ACQUIT & SHOT FOR MUTINY IN 1915; WIDOWS OF TWO WIN REWARDS OF? CENTS EACH...
...Primed & pointed was Lawyer Hogan when the oil scandals of the 1920's raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud...
...theory that violence is the only law such criminals know. The difficulty with the policy is, however ... it is likely to brutalize the police." In Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief...
...their 30's, two in their 20's. They were a fairly representative cross-section of the middle class of U. S. business. Sitting in judgment on 17 representatives of the upper class of U. S. business, they took just three ballots to acquit them of dishonesty: 9 to 3, 11 to 1 and 12 to 0. Of all the two tons of government evidence they asked to see just three items during their secret deliberation: three letters exchanged between Insull officials and Arthur Young & Co., public accountants, as to whether stock dividends received by Insull...