Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...convict, expert knife handler, and 12-string guitar artist styled "Lead Belly" will play to the Leverett inmates and their guests Wednesday evening in the Dining Hall...
First issue of Boys' & Girls' Newspaper carried a report of the Hauptmann verdict, with heavy emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, manacled between two guards, managed to walk from the Flemington courtroom after the death sentence had been passed on him last week. But as he was being led into his cell his knees gave way. The steelyeyed, German ex-convict crumpled, fell on his face. The guards dragged him to his cot. As he lay there, he broke down for the first time since his indictment last October for willfully killing the Lindbergh baby. "Oh, my God," he sobbed, "I feel awful...
...Owen, who now heads an inflationist group passing as the "Sound Money League," piously replied: "Of course, I would not charge Carter Glass with the undeserved prestige of 'gambling' with a 'prison-convict partner' or for that matter of compounding with the two thieves upon the Cross to sup with them in Paradise. I hope, however, that Paradise will be his destination. There may be left some shred of charity in his heart." No trifling cloakroom squabble was last week's dispute. This time it concerned not only the parentage of the Federal Reserve...