Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Wachenfeld, the county prosecutor, was naturally incredulous when a neighbor came to him with a complaint against 66-year-old Mrs. Carr. The neighbor accused Mrs. Carr of swindling her out of $4,700. A skeptical detective went out to investigate...
According to the prosecutor's office, she had taken some $100,000 from neighbors and acquaintances by persuading them that she needed temporary loans to develop sure-thing properties, so lush with oil that the fruit on plum trees turned yellow. Among contributors to Mrs. Carr's favorite charity: a beautician, a druggist, a jeweler. She had never filed any income-tax returns, she said, because "I never gave it a thought...
...solemnly told the jury he would show7 that the Nazis had. got the secret from one of the defendants: German-born Herman Lang. Defendant Lang was in a position to get it: he was final inspector of the sights in the Carl L. Norden Inc. plant in Manhattan. Furthermore, Prosecutor Kennedy charged it had been turned over to Germany in 1938. Apparently the Nazis have had it for three years during which it has remained a secret of secrets...
...rabble-rousing was demonstrated 31 years ago, in 1910, when Theodore Roosevelt, just returned from Africa, picked Henry Stimson, the crack U.S. Attorney in New York City, to run for Governor of New York. Banking heavily on Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument...
Calmly Cochran handed his gun to the special prosecutor, calmly surrendered to a deputy sheriff. He was formally charged with murder, formally released on $500 bail. Then Rancher Cochran drove home with his wife...