Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
...Somerville, dynamic Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor, with a high decisive voice and little hands, made his opening address. While he spoke, a giant telegraph switchboard with 120 "positions" distributed his words to various newspapers; more telegraph wires than have been used for any news event* except the Tunney-Dempsey fight, crackled into action. The front page of the New York Mirror was covered with a picture of Mr. Mills kneeling in sad prayerful pose beside the open grave of his wife. The New York Times wrote about the trial as spaciously as if it were a polar exploration...
...Hall and her brothers were obtained. Last week the trial raged, a climax coming when the state showed that a leader of the 1922 investigations had accepted a $2,500 bribe to leave New Jersey. . . . And then there was always the Pig Woman . . . she collapsed on the witness stand . . . Prosecutor Simpson snatched her away from her physicians, took her to another hospital under guard of his own men . . . Reporters, heartthrob specialists scribbled; so did Dorothy...
Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, running on an "I'm-a-Coolidge-man" platform, is opposed by Atlee Pomerene, onetime (1911-23) Democratic Senator, oil scandal prosecutor, lawyer...
Last week they caught Pat Mc-Dermott. He had been residing in a "luxurious" flat in Cleveland, equipped with a motor car and servant, and taking the air only at night. Detective Ora Slater, working under Prosecutor C. B. McClintock of Stark County, played upon the consciences of Pat McDermott's brothers until they agreed to lure him to Twin Rocks. Pa., by publishing news that his aged mother was dying. Mr. McDermott went to Twin Rocks and was given a week by his brothers to make a case for himself. Then the relatives sent for Detective Slater and ushered...