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...main campus at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, four student strike-leaders were pelted with eggs, tomatoes. The chairman of the County's Joint Americanism Committee revealed that for two months 22 student spies had been blacklisting student and faculty radicals at Berkeley. At nearby San Mateo Junior College four liberal student speakers from Berkeley were pummeled, jailed, sent home with orders to stay there. In neighboring Santa Clara County, officials of San Jose Junior College issued a call for student vigilantes. Santa Clara University expelled the editor of its student newspaper for expressing radical sympathies...
...remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...
Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...
After the kidnappers had been deposited in the San Francisco jail to escape mob violence, police continued to drag the waters around San Mateo bridge for Brooke Hart's body. Even without a corpus delicti the State was primed to hang Thurmond and Holmes under California's brand new kidnapping statute...