Word: inquest
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...Memory. At the inquest, Tom Carswell, the Negro who had shared Hill's cell, shook perceptibly as he was questioned. "They were white and there were two of them," he said. Did he recognize them? "I know just about everybody around here, but I never saw those two before." Wispy-haired Coroner C. C. Thompson, who is also Mclntyre's town butcher, asked: "You probably couldn't identify the men if you saw them again, could you?" "No, suh," said Carswell eagerly...
...soon as the curtain is up (there is no overture), it is clear that Peter Grimes, although he has committed no crime, is as doomed as a character in a Kafka novel. The opera opens with Peter facing an inquest-indeed a trial-in the village hall. He has just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring...
Next day at the inquest the Cleveland coroner asked Sugar Ray Robinson if he noticed whether Doyle was in trouble during the fight. Said Sugar Ray, giving him the best answer a professional boxer could: "Getting him in trouble is my business as a boxer and a champion...
From a poem. by the Rev. George Crabbe, a 19th-Century English parson-poet, Librettist Montagu Slater had fashioned a psychopathic case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman. The first scene is an inquest into the murder of Peter Grimes's boy apprentice. Peter Grimes is exonerated, but the townspeople-fishermen, harlots and scowling drunks-still suspect him and set out to persecute him. Peter takes another apprentice to work for him, and the second boy dies in an accident. The villagers hold Peter responsible and drive him out to sea to drown himself. The score is Mozartian...
...weeks later an inquest cleared Louise's husband, but not Louise. Shy little Lee Judson, walked from the hearing straight to a downtown office building, plunged eight floors down a stair well...