Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Search. First he tracked down members of the jury, found that they were so confused by the judge's charge that a majority first voted to free Hoffner, then reinterpreted the charge and voted to convict him. Mowery also found that a cab driver, who testified at the trial that he had seen Hoffner in Brooklyn eleven miles away at the time of the murder, had been threatened by detectives with losing his license. Another witness, who also saw Hoffner in Brooklyn, was never called to testify...
...Convict debaters at the Norfolk State Prison Colony, long the scourge of New England orensic circles, finally dropped a close decision to Harvard last night at Norfolk...
Good Beats. The stories were often beats, good exclusives. When the state legislature passed a "sneak" bill to pension its former members-including a $12,000-a-year lifetime pension for ex-Governor and ex-Convict James M. Curley (TIME, Sept. 15)-the Post was the first paper to spot it, rode it so hard that the bill was repealed. The Post exposed a city land deal which would have enriched inside politicos. A reporter visiting City Hospital found things so poorly run that strangers could get free meals; another reporter made off with an $80 wheel chair without being...
...Within. In Bodmin, England, arrested on charges of robbery, James Henry Stone, artist, poetaster and ex-convict, pleaded guilty, explained: "I feel I am really wanted in prison and can do something towards society even though it is only to paint pictures...
...Lawrence O. Bardin, 51, former Indianapolis brewer and ex-convict, was indicted by an Indianapolis federal grand jury on charges of evading $213,458 in income taxes in 1946. Bardin figured with onetime (1944-47) Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph D. Nunan Jr. last February, in charges by Senator John J. Williams, Delaware Republican, that Nunan, after he left the federal service, had represented Bardin's brewery against a Government tax claim of $636,000. The claim against Bardin, made when Nunan was commissioner, was settled by Attorney Nunan for $4,500, or less than...