Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey's job is to make an entirely circumstantial case sufficiently powerful to convince twelve Hunterdon County jurymen "beyond a reasonable doubt" of Bruno Hauptmann's guilt. In charge of this difficult task is David T. Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with...
...tons of Government exhibits. Two hundred Government witnesses were summoned. Two million words of testimony were taken in the two-month trial. After the first two weeks the jury had pretty well made up its mind. And last week the trial ended. For two hours and two minutes the jurymen deliberated, and then, filing back into the courtroom, two by two, they rendered their verdict: "Not Guilty...
...Securities stock was not worth what Mr. Insull had said it was. But the small businessmen of the jury did not believe that the laws against using the mails to defraud were framed to catch poor mathematicians. The prosecution's evidence was not the kind to convince the jurymen that Samuel Insull and friends were financial charlatans...
Federal Judge John C. Knox complimented the jurymen on their five weeks' service: "The verdict is altogether understandable. As to Defendant Austin, I dare say you found him, as I did, to be one who took his direction from the man in control . . . and therefore such guilt as might rest on him was of a different type than that which characterized Mr. Harriman. ... I hope that other bank officers, entrusted with the proper use of the moneys in their care, will take this verdict very much to heart...
...linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...