Word: littleton
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...scope and vigor of those activities there has seemingly been another, even more potent inspiration. Perhaps it was the fading tradition of successful Cornelius I, which high-minded, highstrung Cornelius IV sought to regarnish, revitalize. Or perhaps his wife had something to do with it. Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst...
...Littleton, Col., one Dr. Harold E. Blazer chloroformed his 32-year-old daughter. Last week he was to be put on trial for murder and the court set about impaneling a jury. On the first day, 47 men were examined?farmers, mechanics, laborers, business men; out of this number 12 could not be found who did not state in definite terms that they were incontrovertibly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Yet the case against Blazer was clear. The question raised by the disqualified jurymen involved an exceedingly subtle definition of law, an exceedingly complicated issue of ethics. "To commit...
...night train for Chicago puffed out of the Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come...
...summing-up. "The defense is silent as the tomb," said Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. To which, venerable Defending Attorney Lacey replied by demanding that all evidence concerning the monster deal be stricken from the records because there was nothing to implicate Sinclair with the bond transfer. And Defending Attorney Littleton added later the sneer that, some months ago, the Government "got bond hungry and went bond hunting all over...
...December, never looked more woebegone and distant that it did today. . . . An old manor house, the property of one of the first governors of New York state, situated on the top of a little knoll at Plandome, is the residence of a half-brother of our wife, Martin Littleton, the well-known criminal attorney...