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...last ditch, had "one last desperate hope" to save his client by an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court on a technicality. He had sent the particulars of his appeal by letter to a deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the U. S., to E. Elmore Cropley...
...Cropley had taken the matter to Justice Sutherland, who is assigned to the Pacific Circuit. Justice Sutherland shook his head. He said that the Supreme Court had already decided on the issue brought up, and the decision was adverse. Nothing could be done. Chief Justice Taft had said the same thing; so had Justice Sanford...
...morning of the fatal day, Cropley met Justice Stone coming into court and again was denied intercession. He cornered Justice Brandeis in a corridor and was refused for the fifth time...
Undeterred, Cropley cleared a wire to San Quentin in case a last minute reprieve should be given. Then he walked into the Chambers of the Court, where the Justices were consulting on their opinions, and laid the appeal before the Chief Justice. Never before had such procedure taken place...
...Cropley, R. E., business...