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...evening when a fatal volley of buckshot spattered through the study window of the headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys (TIME, Sept. 24). Police of Northfield, Mass., had scoured every foot of the campus. A local judge had held a secret, ten-day inquest, examined 63 witnesses, only to report that young Headmaster Speer had died by the hand of "a person unknown." Last week Mount Hermon's trustees got down to the business of picking as new headmaster a close friend of Mr. Speer. David Richard Porter. A onetime Bowdoin footballer. David Porter first won fame...
...Commons of England are not invested with more of power and dignity by their legislative character than by that which they bear as the grand inquest of the nation...
...indictment against Germany's dictator reads as follows: "The grand jury inquest for the Debating Council of Harvard in and for the body of the University of Harvard, upon their respective oaths present: that Adolph Hitler, on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord 1934, with force of arms, in the state of Germany on the continent of Europe and within the jurisdiction of this court, did unlawfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, commit certain high crimes against humanity, contrary to the laws of humanity...
...British midlands just west of Manchester, past the signal box at tiny Winwick Junction and smack into a puttering local. When the tumult had died and the ten dead had been laid out in the morgue, British Justice last week went ponderously to work on the facts. To an inquest at Warrington was summoned William Bloor...
...word for less than 5,000 francs ($305). I have other bidders. I will let you know shortly. Au revoir." A certain Dr. Jamin of Chamonix complained : "I was the first to be called to attend Stavisky. I protest that I was not also called to testify at the inquest which pronounced him a suicide." In Bayonne the local Mayor, M. Joseph Garat, a Deputy of France arrested as an accomplice of Swindler Stavisky, sat in his cell shivering and disconsolate. One of his last acts as Mayor was to refuse the piteous pleas of shivering prisoners that he install...