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Adjutant General Newlon, with a proclamation of martial law in his pocket, sent for militia, tanks, a medical unit. Governor Adams pronounced the Columbine district to be in a state of insurrection. He and his witnesses absolved Mr. Scherf and the state troopers for their deeds of "self-defense." The strikers swore out warrants for the arrest of their comrades' "murderers," asserting that their part in the Columbine episode had been peaceable. They had only wanted to go to the Columbine post office, they said. Wobbly Adam Bell and others were arrested to prevent further post office visiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wobbling | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Scene of bloodshed and destruction during the martial law days of 1914, when President Wilson sent six troops of cavalry to quell the warfare between miners and mine guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wobbling | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...court martial sitting to try Mihail (Michael) Manoilescu, onetime Under-Secretary of Finance, for conspiring to place onetime Crown Prince Carol on the throne (TIME, Nov. 7, 21) returned a verdict of not guilty and the prisoner was discharged. Wild enthusiasm greeted the decision and M. Manoilescu was carried shoulder high from the court room in the Ministry of War at Bucharest, Rumanian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Manoilescu Acquitted | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...trial began with an unsuccessful attempt by the defense to prove the incompetency of the court. It was urged that the country was not legally under martial law, it being unconstitutional to keep it in a state of siege when there was no danger of foreign invasion, and that, therefore, the trial should go to a civil court before a jury. M. Carapancea, military prosecuting attorney, pleaded the contrary case, and the court came to the conclusion that the government was within its rights in declaring martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Manoilescu Trial | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Holding on to the sleeve of General Escobar, Senor Gomez was taken to the village of Tepcelo, where at 1 o'clock in the morning a court martial was held and his death sentence pronounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: More Deaths | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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