Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based obviously, if not candidly, upon the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the play has an absorbing story to tell. Mio Romagna's father has been executed for a murder which he did not commit. He was considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith...
Star witness called by the Nazi prosecutor was a cowed-looking German in convict garb. Testifying in disjointed fragments, this jailbird swore that he had recognized a picture of Nisselbeck shown him by Nazi police as being that of a man he had seen consorting in Czechoslovakia with anti-Nazi refugees from Germany...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...intended. Day claimed he kicked Loeb in the groin, seized the razor, slashed him so terribly that the blood flew in his face. They clawed around the bathroom floor, Loeb finally crawling to the door, unlocking it, staggering naked down a corridor. His family rushed physicians from Chicago. Another convict gave a quart of blood. Once Loeb, Prisoner No. 9305, looked up at his companion in crime Leopold, Prisoner No. 9306. "I think I'm going to make it," he whispered. He was wrong...
Since he had helped convict Haywood Patterson in 1933 when he was State's Attorney General, Thomas Edmund Knight Jr. had risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...