Word: herald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON defense performed flawlessly as the undefeated Crimeds romped over the Brown Daily Herald 23-2 Saturday, setting the stage for the battle of the unbeaten Saturday when the Yale Daily meets the defending touch football champions...
...signed editorial title, "Here Come De Judge," News Editor William Baggs accused the Herald of "an arrogant in trusion into the due process of law." Later, the News front-paged the results of a Gerstein lie-detector test (he passed...
...your case will be dis missed on the first go-round. You wouldn't bribe anyone. It wouldn't be necessary." Moreover, the alleged ev idence against Gerstein also implicated three judges - all former members of Gerstein's staff. But at first neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against him - would have collapsed. The Herald did eventually publish them, explaining that it could not do so earlier for fear of libel suits...
...doubts were fast mutiplying. The Herald belatedly turned the story over to its Pulitzer-orizewin-ning crime reporter, Gene Miller, who interviewed ex-minister Edwards and found him to be totally obscure ("I am a doctor and Gerstein is on the needle," said Edwards). The charges against Gerstein collapsed completely when Edwards, pleading heart disease, refused to come out of exile in Ontario and appear before the grand jury...
...Herald exceeded journalistic propriety? The grand jury seemed to think so. Two weeks ago, it not only indicted Edwards and his fellow accuser of perjury, but also rebuked the newspaper for taking it upon itself to put the witnesses under lie-detector examination. "Neither we nor other judicial tribunals," said the jurors, "believe that truth is made by an operator of a polygraph machine." A harsher rebuke came from Baggs in another News editorial: "The Herald assumed the robes of De Judge and, in effect, pointed a long and accusing inky finger at Mr. Gerstein. The grand jury believes that...