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...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...
...curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause of a violent death because all the jurymen and most of the witnesses had influenza. At Whittingham bailiffs were obliged to hunt substitutes for the police magistrates, all of whom were...