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...years and result in a $10,000 fine. Walking with a cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care, the Bishop last week stepped into the District of Columbia Court House. He took an active part in selecting the jury, nodding his approval before each juror was selected, making notes and prompting his swart lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, who sat beside him. When Assistant U. S. District Attorney John J. Wilson got up to outline the Government's case, the Bishop suddenly lost interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared...
...Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come within 40 feet of the jury. And the whole thing is air-conditioned. . . . If a juror wants to talk to the fellow in back...
...district attorney (1901-09); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. He was elected district attorney on a fusion ticket, clung on for a second term despite a Tammany comeback in 1905. A consummate showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums for six years after Thaw's acquittal on an insanity plea; smashed Richard Canfield...
...acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine. (Attorneys found no U. S. precedent involving a woman juror, few sentences so severe for similarly guilty male jurors.) U. S. Circuit and Supreme Courts ruled that she must receive either jail sentence or fine, not both. Last fortnight two St. Paul judges chose jail, ordered Mrs. Clark to begin her term one day last week. She did not appear. Three days...
...death in a religious ceremony, went to jail. During the Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent John Mills to jail for life...