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Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...jury deliberated briefly; reached their verdict; returned to the courtroom. Defendant Norris had come back. Mrs. Norris and their two boys-J. Frank Jr., 16, home from Culver Military Academy for the excitement, and George Louis, 10-huddled near him. Dexter E. Chipps Jr., 14, stared over at them. Bailiffs and deputy sheriffs stood in pompous readiness to shoot. "The punishment," said Judge Hamilton, "for anyone creating any disturbance or demonstration in this courtroom will be $100 or three days in jail." Then the jury foreman read off the verdict of not guilty...
Married. Malcolm E. Nichols, Mayor of Boston; to Carrie M. Williams, twin sister of the late Mrs. Nichols. His son Clark, aged 9, was best man; his son Dexter, 7, ringbearer; his daughter Marjorie, 4, flower girl...
Prejudice! Graft! My tactics a bombshell! Prosecution frightened! My case is over! These were the jubilant cries last week of Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, 49, unofficial Baptist Fundamentalist, of Fort Worth, Tex., who on July 17 decreed death to Dexter E. Chipps, lumber dealer, and acted as agent himself (TIME, July 26 et seq.). The now deceased had ventured to expostulate with the parson for maligning D. E. Chipps' friend, the Mayor of Fort Worth. Pastor Norris, who has since been at liberty on bail, preaching weekly to vast throngs, has now secured a change of venue...
...Samuel Dexter on his death in 1810, bequeathed to Harvard University $5,000 to promote "a critical knowledge of the Holy Scriptures." He had been a very well known citizen in this country. He took a leading part in the cause of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay as a member of the Provincial Assembly and later of the Provincial Congress. During the latter part of his long life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of theology, concerning which subject he held firm and very definite opinions. His funds, the management of which he had inputted to the President...