Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean, tight-lipped man in a neat brown suit presented himself in Federal Judge Henry Goddard's Manhattan courtroom. The judge said briefly: "You are surrendering to the marshal?" Said the lean man: "Yes, sir." A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell...
Last week 46-year-old Alger Hiss walked through the bleak ruin of his life. His wife Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half...
...prosecutor bayed for a death penalty, left the courtroom snapping: "The goddamdest travesty on justice, ever." The Justice Department, apparently dissatisfied with Judge Chandler's decision too, agreed to surrender the killer to Imperial County, Calif., where officials felt certain they could send him to the gas chamber for the desert killing of a vacationing Seattle salesman...
...committee had caught Costello in a clear case of perjury. Next day, Costello came back to the courtroom looking ruffled, shrunken and malevolent. His throat was inflamed, the television lights bothered him, and he was in no condition to testify further, his lawyer declared. Mild-mannered but firm, Kefauver insisted he should try to answer a few questions. Rasped Costello: "I want to testify truthfully and my mind don't function . . . With all due respect for the Senators-I have an awful lot of respect for them-I am not going to answer another question ... I am going...
...buxom, pretty matron spoke up very clearly in the quiet Manhattan federal courtroom. Calmly, Mrs. David Greenglass, mother of two small children, told court and jury some of the incidents of her domestic life. She told how, in 1945, when she was living in Albuquerque, she and her husband had a visit from a man named Harry Gold. The incident was to set the Greenglasses apart forever from their fellow citizens in the U.S. They delivered to Gold some atomic information stolen from the secret atomic project at Los Alamos, where Sergeant David Green-glass was stationed...