Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Part of the testimony of Mr. Russell before the Board of Education, which is endeavoring to convict he superintendent of schools on the charge of An glomanin...
...Baumes Code, effective last year in New York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg...
...preliminaries of a murder trial began last week in Cincinnati. For George Remus, once potent bootleg boss, later a convict, they were poison. They had shot dead his wife, Emogene, in a public park. Now he had to produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky...
...Hibben thinks Beecher was guilty. Well, better men than he do not think so. His own church, after long and painstaking investigation, fully exonerated him. A jury failed to convict him. A congregational council of 200 earnest men acquitted him without a dissenting vote. His own wife knew him better than any scandalmongering writer, and she knew him to be guiltless...
...Klan offer of immunity in exchange for naming a certain candidate for public prosecutor; that he had named instead William H. Remy who then acted in the Governor's prosecution. This time public sympathy had effect; last week onetime (1921-24) Governor of Indiana Warren T. McCray, now convict 17746 in the Atlanta Penitentiary,* was granted a parole...