Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the trial was perfectly fair, there remains a conviction that Doheny and Fall were acquitted more through skilful manipulation of the paradoxical machinery of the Common Law than through conviction of their innocence. It has never been easy to prove guilt in cases of major political importance. The ordinary course of justice could not convict Strafford of treason; public odium and the amazing oratory of Burke and Sheridan could not find Hastings guilty...
...Trial. The jury which hopes either to convict or to clear Messrs. Fall and Doheny before Christmas is composed of typically average U. S. citizens-a steamfitter, an artist, a cigar store clerk, an expressman, etc. Most of them, when asked if they knew anything about the oil scandal, said, "Yes, we have noticed it in the headlines, but never looked into it deeply enough to form any definite opinions...
...morning last May in Joliet, Ill., seven convicts in the Stateville penitentiary (four of them were already murderers, one of them was only 19, three of them were Mexicans) talked feverishly together. Why not be free? Part of it was easy-they had a crowbar and several pairs of scissors. Deputy Warden Peter N. Klein resisted them. Convict Duchowski, who had killed a Chicago policeman, broke the Warden's skull with the crowbar; others stabbed him with their scissors. One thing remained. They must help Nathan F. Leopold Jr., the boy who killed for a thrill, escape with them...
...girls, wrongly accused of the murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid away for several seasons now, was brought out for the debut of Elsa Alsen, a very worthy Isolde. Rigoletto had its turn, Il Trovatore, a Sunday matinee of Carmen, the second week opening with Lucia. Chicagoans were well-pleased-with the first week list...
...more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that D. C. Stephenson, Klan dragon and now a convict, was their big cheese, and that they dealt with...