Word: inquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sits at his dining room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times more than implicit. In every detective story there should be a star detective but here he is fallible enough to seem human...
...killed, a medical examination, ordered by the District Attorney of Nassau County, Long Island, disclosed sufficient alcohol in his brain to indicate that he was drunk at the time of his crash (TIME, July 8, 15). Last week a Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner, held an inquest. The autopsy evidence was not offered in evidence. Witnesses who were close to Stultz before his fatal flight said they did not consider him drunk then. So the Coroner's decision was that Stultz died of a broken neck while doing a "falling leaf...
Stultz Drunk. What many suspected when able Pilot Wilmer Stultz killed himself and two passengers (TIME, July 8), a coroner's inquest ascertained last week. He was drunk. War flyers condoned. Most of them drank to steady their nerves when flying was killing. Plane travelers condemned. For their safety they need total abstainers. Transport companies replied. Their pilots shall not drink...
Rupert Taylor, jailer of the town of Aiken, S. C., was testifying at a Coroner's inquest held upon the death of three Negro prisoners-Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister, Bertha. The jailer's account was simple...
...offset this gloomy inquest, one may delve into the writings of the modern apostle of moderation, Stuart P. Sherman. His happy philosophy sees in the new order of life a perfectly natural reaction against the complacency of the old regime which led to that inverted climax; the greatest war in history. In his essays, such as "My Dear Cornelia" there is a sanity and a sense of proportion lacking in the more radical novelists. Mr. Sherman shows considerable ability in distinguishing highways from byways...