Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosecutor Buckner remembered five dismal weeks in a courtroom, dismal months of gathering evidence. He announced: "We never decide on the question of a new trial for at least a month. The Government has no apologies-we did our best...
...66th hour, the "twelve good men and true" with circles under their eyes, as gloomy as craters in the moon again walked into the courtroom. Harry Daugherty watched them with one eye, covered his other inflamed one with a handkerchief. Colonel Miller chewed gum. Mrs. Miller bit her finger nails. Judge Mack wearily asked them: "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen...
...detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon. An unsavory and sensational case. It was vaguely known that D. C. Stephenson had possessed some sort of political influence and the courtroom was filled. The judge, in his instructions to the jury, summed up the evidence somewhat as follows...
...next day Mai S. Daugherty, who had been in the courtroom since the trial opened, suddenly became probably the Government's most important witness. He merely stated that his brother Harry had burned the missing bank records. Max D. Steuer, defense attorney, questioned brother Mai a second time...
Last week in Federal Judge Julian W. Mack's Manhattan courtroom, continued the criminal trial of two members of the Harding Administration, onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller (TIME, Sept. 13, 20). They are charged with defrauding the U. S. Government of their "unbiased and unprejudiced services" accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for their speedy transfer of $7,000,000 worth of the American Metal Co.'s stock from the care of the Alien Property Custodian back to the original German...