Word: gooch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...February 1936 the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the death sentence conviction of a smalltime crook named Gooch for the abduction of two sheriffs from Paris, Tex. to Pushmataha County, Ark. Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...
...hypothetical case which Justice Alyce decides, modeled after the facts of the Gooch case, is called Ex parte Snatch. Oscar Snatch, a candidate for the senior class presidency of Siwash College, situated ten miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying...
...analogy between [the Gooch] case and this is too close to be ignored. If [the Supreme Court] was right then, this court is right now. . . . Judgment affirmed." Lawyer Cowan finally reports that the President denied Kidnapper Snatch's petition for clemency, being a lawyer himself...
...Thomas Gooch Tickle, 44, is a slender, timid-looking Manhattan nerve surgeon. Joseph Albert Sullivan, 34, is a husky, combative Toronto surgeon. Several years ago they studied together in Manhattan under the late Surgeons Sir Charles Ballance and Arthur Baldwin Duel, both of whom died a few months ago. Surgeons Ballance and Duel taught the younger surgeons how to repair facial palsy. In that disease the facial nerve controlling all the muscles which give character and expression to the features, degenerates. A chill, a mastoid operation or a fracture may cause facial palsy. No matter what the cause, one side...
TIME, June 29, p. 9, carries a picture of the hanging of one Arthur Gooch...