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...define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year's General Strike in San Francisco. The defense won a play when the Court agreed to have Convict Billings brought from Folsom Prison to San Francisco, so that he will face his one-time co-agitator when he gives his testimony. The pair have split because Billings will accept parole. Mooney will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Where it Happened | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Portland, Me.. James Morrill, 11, helped convict his mother of murder by telling how, after she had killed his father with an ax in their shack on Falmouth's Underwitted Road, she made her small son help trundle the body down to the cellar in his toy cart. "She asked me to help bury him," said James Morrill. "I threw on a few shovels of dirt, but I didn't feel like doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Examples | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Atlanta. Ga., Jimmy Rosenfeld of Brooklyn was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a stranger whom he mistook for his sweetheart's husband. ¶In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., on the stage of the State penitentiary chapel, Convict Glen Murray stabbed Convict Florence Turner to death with half a pair of scissors, cried: "I did it because I loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Examples | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...HARVARD, no man is socially correct until he has a "Wiffles" haircut. A "Wiffles" is nothing more nor less than a convict haircut. And they order "tonics" instead of soft drinks, and send their clothes to the "cleansers." There is also the tradition that the men grow bushy beards during finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...with the evidence of their emotional disturbance. Used by 52 Chicago banks on their employes, the polygraph has turned up many a petty pilferer. Corroborative evidence based on the polygraph has been admitted four times in U. S. courts of law. Last year Governor Comstock of Michigan pardoned a convict who steadfastly denied the murder with which he was charged and successfully passed a polygraph test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Complexes | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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