Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robe and white, horsehair wig, Sir Oscar Bedford Daly looked like Oliver Cromwell. The Chief Justice of His Majesty's Supreme Court for the Bahamas was taking testimony in longhand. Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny...
...knew nothing of the tragedy until he went to call his friend for breakfast. Police Captain Edward Sears stated that he saw Christie downtown in a station wagon after the time dinner guests Dulcibel Effie Heneage and Charles Hubbard left and Sir Harry and his friend retired. When Defense Counsel Godfrey Higgs pressed him on his movements that night and his actions after discovering the crumpled body, Christie began to shout. De Marigny stopped picking his teeth, listened intently. Christie's friends said that he was just absentminded...
Where Was Grisou? The first week witnesses were offered by the prosecutors, Attorney General Eric Hallinan and Special Crown Counsel Alfred Francis Adderley, Negro member of London's Middle Temple. Evidence collected at preliminary hearings last summer was presented again: the singed hairs on De Marigny's hands, arms, face and chest; the mark of his little finger on the smoke-smudged white screen that stood by Sir Harry's bed; the light that Neighbor Howard Lightbourne saw burning in the Count's bedroom that night; the fact that the shirt Freddy wore has never turned...
Extortion or Bribery? As Willie's yarns went on, blackening reputations indiscriminately, the defense began to switch the blame. Shrewd James D. C. Murray, chief counsel for "The Syndicate," said: "These defendants are no angels ... a man would be a jackass to say so. However, I intend to prove that the moviemen who made these deals with them are one step lower on the ladder...
...expressed his conviction that if either report were debated it would result in "an unpleasant and unedifying discussion." He suggested that the Bishops adopt neither report, but authorize the Commission to "continue its negotiations" with the Presbyterians. His resolution also stipulated that nothing definite could be done without "the counsel of the Lambeth Conference." This is a meeting of worldwide Anglican Bishops held every ten years. At his desk across the aisle, the Anglophile Manning nodded his grey head approvingly...