Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tilton accused Beecher of having made improper proposals to Mrs. Tilton. A third person succeeded in convincing soft-hearted Beecher that he had actually wrecked Tilton's home through not having been on guard against Mrs. Tilton. Trapped into signing a memorandum which sounded like an admission of guilt, Beecher was sued by Tilton for alienation of affection. He was exonerated after a trial which cost him $118,000 (his church raised his salary to $100,000 for that year) and, as he said, took up more newspaper space than all the battles of the Civil...
Even an indictment is of course no evidence of guilt but in actual practice it takes a long time to erase by an acquittal the stigma of the indictment. To this would now be added an indictment in the press in the first instance...
...with conspiring against your life. I challenge you to have me sentenced as guilty by your Tribunal and to ask then for my extradition from the United States on the basis of such a sentence. Thus you will have the opportunity to lay down the evidence of my guilt before an American Court and I that of refuting all the charges against me before impartial judges. If my challenge is ignored. I shall ask a Committee of eminent American citizens to examine such evidence against me as will be made known by the Fascist Tribunal and to pass judgment upon...
...impulsiveness with which the administration acted may, however, teach a lesson for the future. For if it brings a more cautions course in respect to charges that require at least a hearing and establishment of guilt, then the controversy over airmail will not have been without its constructive benefits...
...Would that make any difference as to your guilt or innocence?" "My rights," Finney insisted, "have been disregarded in having me plead guilty under an agreement that was not kept...