Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open season at the Court of St. James once more fills the columns of the society page as the flower of democracy runs the gauntlet of diplomacy, privilege and connection to reach the end in view. Journalists "view with alarm" the costly pilgrimmage and tales run rife of the "inside path" to the Mecca of upper crust...
...have profaned the House of God. outraged the decencies of nature and broken the law of man," cried Sir Ernest Wild, K. C., Recorder of London, at Old Bailey court, last week. After elaborating these thoughts for some minutes he sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, for perjury in swearing falsely to her marriage declaration, famed "Captain Barker, D. S. O.," the transvestite, Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Arkell-Smith, who for five years masqueraded successfully as a male War hero, who eloped with and married Miss Alfreda Howard, a chemist's simple daughter (TIME, March...
...Chicago, one William Hoke, Negro, confessed in court last week that he had placed banana skins on the premises of 45 companies, slipped on them, collected damages. His sentence: six months...
...Mary Ware Dennett, 53, a grandmother, sat in a Brooklyn court last week studying the faces of twelve Brooklyn men, middle-aged and elderly, who in turn eyed her. They were a Federal Jury sitting to decide whether she had committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy...
...jury went into retirement for 42 minutes. John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0. "Guilty." Colloquy between the reporter and the juror...