Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five prisoners on trial for "willful but unpremeditated murder" spent most of last week locked in an iron cage set up in the modest Court of Assizes at the little town of Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged...
...Matteotti murder (June 10, 1924), as everyone knows, seriously embarrassed the Fascist Party, resulted in the arrest of 25 Fascists, and gave rise to rumors which still brand Premier Mussolini with the suspicion of having instigated the assassination. One by one 20 of the more prominent arrested persons have been released by the public prosecutor or set free under the last general amnesty. Recently the wife of Matteotti withdrew from all participation in the prosecution which her attorneys characterized as "judicially and morally nil." Last week there began the trial of five men who are regarded widely as mere scapegoats...
...declared: "Since the Fascist Party is completely extraneous to the Matteotti murder, I, although Secretary General of the party, do not hesitate to assume the defense of the accused in my private capacity of barrister...
...refused,, being weary and wanting to go to bed; that he first knew of the affair when some one drove hastily up to the White House and informed him; that then he went immediately to his dying father; further, that, had he gone, the murder might possibly have been averted, since he, youngest of the party and entering the box last, naturally would have had a seat next the door and might have interfered when Booth rudely intruded. If you are in error, please correct in the interest of accurate history...
Thoughtful citizens were careful to keep in mind the fact that Foreman Conant had undergone his trying experience at a trial that was evidently of very legalistically technical nature. They were careful to remember that juries at murder trials are called upon to exercise moral rather than intellectual discrimination. In fine, they bore in mind that Foreman Conant had flayed but one type of juridical procedure. Within that scope his comments seemed most pertinent...