Word: inquest
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...have been more surprised. He shut himself up in his house and tried to wash his hands of the whole horrid affair. Two guards-Alfred Brough and Francis Smith-were held on homicide charges by the Coroner, who promised eight arrests of guards and "higher-ups" after the inquest this week...
Fortnight ago Czech Playwright Karel Capek's Power and Glory was produced in London with Vienna-born Oscar Homolka in the two leading roles. On opening night most of the women in a hushed audience wore black, aware that Homolka would come straight to the theatre from the inquest following his young wife's death from an infection...
...Marlowe's college years, largely based on the Cambridge "Buttery Book" that lists Marlowe's modest spendings for bread and beer, Christopher Marlowe reaches its high point in its account of the poet's death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible...
According to the inquest, which may have been a whitewash, these four conspirators stayed at Dame Bull's tavern all day. At six o'clock they ate supper in their private room. Marlowe stretched out on the bed and the others, facing him, began playing backgammon. Frizer's dagger was hanging over the back of a chair within Marlowe's reach. Marlowe and Frizer may have argued over the bill. Poley may have been under orders to get Marlowe drunk and kill him. But the coroner's account has it that Marlowe grabbed Frizer...
...Elder told the same story he had told when police arrested him the next; morning at his poultry farm at Alton, N. H., where he retired after the Speer inquest in 1934. He had spent the night of May 25 with his wife at the Eagle Hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 mi. from Greenfield. He had not worn a long coat that night and did not own one. District Attorney David Keedy called a Keene filling station proprietor to testify that Mr. Elder, wearing a coat "down to his calves," had bought eight gallons of gasoline from...