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...indictments-pass-ing the note, possessing it, and conspiring to pass it-the Justice charged them to consider the first point alone. Neither Attorney Leibowitz nor Assistant U. S. Attorney John J. Dowling had ever heard of such a procedure, but they made no objection. When the jurymen returned from this simplified task in the record time of an hour and a half, announcing that they had found Palmer guilty and Morosi innocent of passing the note, Justice Van Devanter proceeded to a further time-saving innovation...
...indictment." As for possession he suggested that they find Palmer guilty. Said he: "I am not instructing you to do so, but he couldn't have passed the bill without having possessed it." Then Justice Van Devanter gave the jury five minutes to return the indicated verdicts. The jurymen returned with them...
...long last "Parker v. Tribune" went to the jurymen after Mr. Parker had addressed them for the greater part of a day. Cried Promoter Parker: "The leopard never changes his spots! Once an honest man, always an honest man!" He called the jury's attention to his spotless record on the Tribune. Mr. Parker regards the present-day Tribune as Chicago's greatest liability, once assured a crowd at a stump speech for Presidential Candidate William Lemke that Col. McCormick was both Chicago's "Dictator" and its "Public Enemy No. 1." Col. McCormick had a doughty champion...
...military escort which behaved as though guarding his life rather than attempting to prevent his escape, and in the screwiest trial yet staged outside Soviet Russia he loudly took entire blame for everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights for five years -and he drove with his clattering escort to the handsome...
...Saturday night when the jury of business and professional men retired to consider the case. Rather than lock up the jurymen, Justice McCook went to sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...