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...Indians. In 1890, when Joe was nine, his parents helped found a series of outdoor camp meetings which are still held in West Texas. Joe watched hell-raising Jeff Davis County become law-abiding to the point where the grand jury, eleven years running, could find nobody to indict...
Flourishing a set of the Pennsylvania's own rules requiring warning lights, Assistant County Prosecutor Alex Eber promptly accused the railroad of "criminal negligence," and announced that he would try to indict the Pennsylvania for manslaughter. Snapped Eber: "I don't propose to stand by and permit the Pennsylvania to use the engineer as its scapegoat...
...Nobody really expected a smart boy like George to talk; it was a matter of routine. But for some reason, George entered the grand jury room and began to sing. Before he was through, he had given 49 pages of fact-jammed testimony, which was sizzling enough to help indict nine Miami police officers, to put every topflight gambler out of business and, temporarily, at least, close Dade County's Gold Coast gambling casinos. After he finished testifying, George was hustled out of town...
...John S. Service, who was accused of passing out confidential State Department information to the party-line Amerasia magazine in 1945 (a jury refused to indict him), got his seventh loyalty clearance, this time by the State Department's Loyalty Security Board, headed by Republican Conrad E. Snow. On his way to India last spring, Service was summoned home from Japan after Wisconsin's Senator Joseph McCarthy had called him "a bad security risk" whose "Communist affiliations are well-known." The board's findings, said a spokesman, had been held up while it investigated "a rumor from...
...again witnesses pointed unequivocally at Shephard as the bad-check passer. "I stood there handcuffed while they swore my life away," he said later. The judge gave him 18 months in the penitentiary. When it was over he was arrested a third time, but a grand jury refused to indict for the simple reason that he had been behind bars at the time of the new crime. A banker on the grand jury listened overtime to Shephard's story of innocence and sent him off to tell it to the Burns Detective Agency, which acts as a clearing house...