Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time there was no Clarence Darrow, no highly paid alienist, no maudlin press, no bribed jury, nor oratorical defense lawyers, and no harassing of bereaved relatives on the witness stand. Thurmond and Holmes were too gulity to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob was...
For six tense days the family waited while police hunted. One night last week the kidnappers again telephoned the Hart home. Police intercepted the call, traced it to a garage near San Jose City Hall. At the garage they found a husky man in a faded blue sweater still talking...
After the kidnappers had been deposited in the San Francisco jail to escape mob violence, police continued to drag the waters around San Mateo bridge for Brooke Hart's body. Even without a corpus delicti the State was primed to hang Thurmond and Holmes under California's brand...
The probable lineup of Winthrop House will be: Morris, l.e., Dunton, l.t.; Schwizer, l.g. Foley, c.; Size, r.g.; Carman, r.t.; Emerson, r.e.; Crampton, q.b.; Hindel, r.h.b.; Mendell, l.h.b.; Holmes, f.b.
If these things are not entirely unfair, then it is time for someone to begin calling knaves knaves. With a courage, born as much of sincerity as of invulnerbility, Dean Holmes has clouted a hornets nest with a very short handled stick. He has not much of a solution to...