Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosecutor William L. Phinney's voice wavered for a moment, for he, like almost everyone in the courtroom, knew and liked the defendant. Then he pressed firmly on. "It is a difficult thing to ask for-particularly for me. But if we are to live in a society of laws, the people within that society must abide by those laws." And so last week the state of New Hampshire demanded the conviction of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander, accused of the mercy killing of a dying cancer patient...
Ruthless pruning might have made Black Hand taut and incisive enough to deserve the loving care with which it was put together. As it is, the picture flares occasionally into what it might have been, e.g., a courtroom scene in which a crucial witness falters under a small gesture from the spectators' rows. Dancer Kelly proves capable in a straight role and gets the support of a good cast. As the frustrated detective who has spent 20 years fighting the gang, Actor Naish polishes off a gem of a scene as he drunkenly celebrates his first victorious skirmish...
...dock, read a statement from notes in a high, tinny voice, barely intelligible underneath his heavy German accent. "I have had a fair trial," he said, "and I wish to thank you, My Lord . . ." Then Lord Goddard leaned forward on his bench; a chill passed through the courtroom...
...crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into the innards, the vital organs and the muscles known as the human heart." Fannie interviewed fruit vendors and drugstore cowboys, lined up at 6 a.m. with spectators waiting to get into the courtroom...
...telling how a reporter had lost a squabble over a seat in the crowded court; he neglected to mention that the reporter was O'Hara. Hearst-ling Inez Robb, doing her usual breezy job, apologized to her readers for one omission: she had felt she must leave the courtroom when the autopsy testimony got too grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint of her grey hair. But Manchesterites were not amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester...