Word: mornard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called Jacques Mornard puffed angrily at cigarets, squirmed in his chair, jammed his hat over a microphone in an attempt to cut off a broadcast of his trial. Unperturbed, a court clerk in Mexico City last week droned through a 118-page verdict : Jacques Mornard was guilty of murdering Leon Trotsky, the exiled enemy of Joseph Stalin, on Aug. 20, 1940. Unproved was the charge that Mornard was an agent of the Russian secret police. Sentence: 20 years (Mexico City has no capital punishment, no life imprisonment...
...There has been no suppression. The man who calls himself Frank Jackson (alias Jacques Mornard) has been convicted of Trotsky's murder, is in close custody in Mexico City jail awaiting sentence, while Mexican authorities look further into the dark question of Stalinist instigation. Jackson's cell is specially constructed, has steel bars like a tiger's cage. His onetime very good friend, Sylvia Ageloff, was acquitted of complicity, left Mexico...
...Visitor. Frank Jackson, who came to see him at 5:30 that afternoon, was not, he thought, one of these agents. Though Frank Jackson was suspected in Mexico City of being a shady character known as Leon Jacome, as Leon Haikys, as Jacques Mornard van den Dreschd and sometimes simply as el tipo Judio Frances (the French-Jewish type), Trotsky knew him as an admiring young disciple who contributed generously to the Fourth International. Six months before, Jackson had been brought to him by a Manhattan social worker named Silvia Ageloff, whose sister was once Trotsky's secretary. Jackson...