Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Censuring the act of two Egyptian judges who overruled British Judge Kershaw last week forcing the acquittal of six out of seven natives (two Zaghlulists) charged with the murder of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Judge Kershaw resigned last week. The British note ominously "declined to accept the verdict, reserved the right to take steps to insure the future safety of foreigners in Egypt...
...truthful, these reports indicate "a reign of terror" in which the victorious troops would appear to have glutted every appetite to the full. The foreign population- guarded by foreign soldiers in the Legation Quarter-was not molested; but looting, murder and rapine took place widely throughout the Chinese quarters...
...that, Silence is not so much of a picture. It is a melodrama involving a man accused of murder, snatched from the death chair, shielding another, a faithful girl- and all that. Good enough, and an indication of excellent pictures forthcoming from H. B. Warner...
...sombre Zambezi, through the confusing and indiscernible vagaries of his enslavement, through the darknesses of his neo-liberty with its mob-slaughter, lynching and stake-burnings, and finally into the hope and comprehensions of a new day. This graphic recitation was to show that Henry Sweet, Negro accused of murder, was the unconscious victim of ancient racial inheritances, that when he knelt before a window in his brother's house and fired he had done it in utterance of primitive antipathies. A bullet had pierced fatally one Leon E. Breiner, a citizen seated in his rocking chair...
...first instinct a man has," argued famed Clarence Darrow, pallid attorney for the defense, "is to save his life." He spoke painstakingly of the fact that this was no ordinary murder trial but rather a trial of racial prejudices vs. impartial justice. Said he, "We are born into this world with a brain of putty, with no knowledge of color, no antipathies against black men, but as soon as we are born, people around us begin planting prejudices in our minds. . . . I haven't any doubt but that everyone of you jurymen is prejudiced. We are all prejudiced...