Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were not a crap-shooting, Jazz-singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
...street car conductor, one J. Ray Akers, was one of Juror Kidwell's audience. Conductor Akers had an idea that autos are not what jurors usually "get out of" criminal trials Conductor Akers timidly telephoned the local Hearst paper (the Washington Herald). Reporter Donald T. King went and heard Juror Kidwell hold forth at the soft-drink stand with conductor Akers for interlocutor. reporter king then told the us attorneys office what he had heard. that office forthwith took certain covert steps...
President Edward W. Beatty of the Canadian Pacific R. R. was marooned in his private car at Woodsville...
...thoughtless mob appeared suddenly to the Mitchells as the car passed the crest of a hill...
There was not enough headway for their chauffeur to stop. So to avoid killing busybodies and brawlers he tried to drive along the shoulder of the road. The rear wheels skidded. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were jolted half out of the open tonneau into the ditch. The car rolled on top of them...