Word: courtroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
When the convicted ringleaders, Chief of Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
...where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge's leg; the smoky lady in stepins whom none but Topper can understand; Topper sitting platonically in an ectoplasmic lap ?out of such stuff is compounded a book to be hugged by bored suburbanites, occasional inebriates and all amateurs of good humor...
Into a Berlin courtroom there strode, last week, a prisoner named Schwarz, who scowled upon the presiding Judge and slumped heavily into a chair, his jaw jutting...
...banknotes, but stated proudly: 1) that they had done so by command of their superior officers; or 2) that they had acted from the most disinterested patriotic motives. The forty-nine witnesses, including six Counts, two Barons, and one Bishop, fidgeted meanwhile, sniffed with disapproval the air of a courtroom jammed to suffocation...