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...Manhattan court, Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. was about to deliver his charge to the jury in an assault case, when he noticed that Juror No. 7 was missing. After a whispered colloquy with a court clerk he announced. "Juror No. 7 is absent under rather peculiar circumstances." Juror No. 7, a Miss Vivian Morrison, 52, was being convicted in another Manhattan court of using a slug instead of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Judge Nott declared a mistrial. Approximate cost to the State of the subway slug...
Contemporary and friend of William Merritt Chase (see p. 19), and a teacher of repute, Tarbell had the unusual distinction of being a juror of award at three international expositions: St. Louis in 1904, San Francisco in 1915, Philadelphia...
...court room at London and addressed the judge. Farmer Taylor said that back in 1929 he worked for General Motors, hurt his right arm. The arm still aches at times, and when it aches Mr. Taylor hates corporations. Therefore, he did not feel that he should sit as a juror in the case about to be tried. In the same jury box briefly occupied by Mr. Taylor, Factory Employe Ralph Mays was asked about his wife, said "She's a Payne from Goose Creek." He was dismissed when it was found that he could hardly read, could write only...
Last week, the Campbell-McGee parade reached its logical destination. After a trial, in the course of which the judge announced that he had foiled a plot whereby a woman juror was to receive a $25,000 bribe for holding out for acquittal, a jury, sequestered in the Statler Hotel, found Messrs. Campbell & McGee guilty as charged. Same day, accompanied by policemen but not by their musicians, Messrs. Campbell & McGee motored to Ohio Penitentiary, to start serving one-to-five-year sentences...
Next to ice in his whiskey & soda, the thing an Englishman dislikes most is a draft from an open window. So last week when barristers and jurors complained of drafts to Mr. Justice Humphreys at the Winchester assizes, the bewigged justice gave heed, dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...