Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kutner took the case (he likes to take on "charity cases" which intrigue him), he discovered that all important court records were destroyed or missing. But Lawyer Kutner's investigators did obtain a medical report submitted by a Dr. John E. Walter of Waukegan the day after the crime. It showed that Mamie Snow had not been raped. The prosecution, ruthlessly bent on convicting him, had suppressed the report...
...South ... I am ashamed of the discrimination which the Negro suffers in the South . . . But [we don't] pretend that it doesn't exist. That pretense is assiduously practiced in the North . . . The North has almost a monopoly on neurotics . . . dipsomaniacs, abnormal sex delinquents, divorced couples, Communists, crime-comics readers, [and] gin-rummy addicts...
...Then he cleared him of all charges and turned him loose. The roof promptly fell in on the sheriff. A Negro construction worker named Wesley Byrd complained that he had also been held incommunicado in jail for twelve days, that state policemen had tried to make him admit the crime by squeezing his testicles with a bicycle lock. Nuzum's landlady, who backed the athlete's alibi, had been warned by the sheriff that "he didn't want any more dead women around here...
Thin, bristling Police Commissioner Jean Eglenne of Cannes announced importantly: "We must reconstruct the crime." The criminals were still at large, but the victims willingly played their parts. The tubby Aga Khan, his pretty wife, a maid and chauffeur trooped out of the Aga's villa at Le Cannet, near Cannes, and showed just what had happened in the Riviera sunshine one day last week...
...House and the Department of Justice were becoming uncomfortably aware of Jailbird Gara and his conscience. Some 400 clergymen and laymen had signed petitions on his behalf. Pickets turned up at the White House. Quakers and pacifist-minded churchmen throughout the country were drawing parallels between Gara's crime and their own stand against conscription; many concluded that they were as eligible for the lockup as he was. Said one of President Truman's aides: "These conchies give you nothing but grief and trouble. They won't even apply for parole-they just sit there in jail...