Word: courtrooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Castle's packed courtroom was surrounded by State police and deputy sheriffs when General Denhardt, bluff, 6 ft. 2 in., 220-lb. veteran of three wars, appeared for an examining trial. George Baker, the farmer who had pushed the General's stalled car into his driveway and later heard two shots, took the stand. The first shot, he said, had sounded "awful loud, awful near." He had gone out in the yard, had glimpsed the General standing by his car, then heard a second shot, "like a popgun or a .22 rifle." General Denhardt had explained that...
Twelve hundred Kentuckians packed the New Castle courtroom for the inquest. First witness called was General Denhardt. Marching to the chair, he announced in a loud, clear voice that he declined to testify "on advice of counsel over my protest." Up from the buzzing crowd stepped a sheriff, clapped a hand on the bald and portly officer's shoulder, said: "General Denhardt, I have a warrant for your arrest...
...Sept. 19, 1803 an impetuous, unpractical, pock-marked young Irishman stood in a Dublin courtroom charged with high treason. His name was Robert Emmet and his crime was planning, with French help, an abortive Irish rebellion. Those were the days when orators were orators, and Robert Emmet's speech, "taken from the notes of a celebrated Stenographist," has been the favorite forensic floral piece of Irish-American ward politicians and barroom declaimers for 100 years...
...first time in several hundred years, local Ipswich members of the bar were denied free access to the courtroom and the Mayor, who is himself an Ipswich magistrate, was admitted only after arguing with his own police. In English divorce proceedings the wife, when examined by the Court, must stand in the witness box, which has no chair. Last week matters had been so arranged that all courtroom gallery seats faced by Mrs. Simpson from the box were vacant. Tickets were issued only for a few seats to which her back was turned...
...forcing her to appear at a Manhattan Jefferson Day dinner attended by President Roosevelt, Warner Brothers had violated her $3,000-a-week contract, claimed Cinemactress Bette Davis in a packed London courtroom of the King's Bench Division, where her U. S. employers were suing to stop her from fulfilling a $50,000 British film engagement. "As this contract stands," pleaded her lawyer, "Miss Davis could not become a waitress in a restaurant or an assistant in a hair dresser's shop in the wilds of Africa. . . ." Observed Sir Patrick Hastings, bewigged barrister for Vice President Jack...