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...stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect of the case when the time came to weigh Hauptmann's fate...
State Opens. All twelve jurors had sworn that they had formed no prejudgment on the 20th Century's most fantastic murder case. One amazing prospective juror was found who confessed that he had never heard of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh affair, indeed did not even know for what case he had been called. He was challenged by the defense for "terrible lack of intelligence," excused...
Judge Priest (Fox). Best shot in this picture: a tippled old juror, in the final courtroom scene, after expectorating an ample supply of tobacco juice loudly and accurately into a spittoon, describing how he contrived to hook the stream around a table leg to reach its mark.* The sot is one of the minor characters who, together with shambling, inarticulate Stepin Fetchit (TIME, March 12), supply most of the comedy relief...
...Chicago last week one John A. Morrison, juror in an embezzlement trial, sucked at a whiskey bottle during the proceedings, hiccoughed all through recesses, was too drunk for coherence during the voting, had to be tubbed, caused a mistrial, was held for contempt of court, got ten days in jail...
...jury found Dr. Hyde guilty of murder and the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment. An appeal brought a new trial which broke up when a juror went mad. The third Hyde trial ended with a jury disagreement in 1913. For four years more the Swopes egged the prosecutors on, then weary of the expensive procedure they agreed to let the indictment against Dr. Hyde be dropped. Dr. Hyde took a job loading sand trucks in Kansas City, later moved to rural Lexington where he had a small practice...