Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After spending most of the morning presenting evidence that Dr. Van Waters indentured reformatory inmates for out-of-state service during her administration, prosecutor Frank A. Dwyer wound up most of his case early in the afternoon...
...superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort of law, this hearing was conducted before the Commissioner himself. McDowell was therefore judge, jury, and prosecutor; his decision last Friday to sustain his original findings was hardly surprising...
...night of Nov.11, 1932, ex-Convict Roy Frank Godbey and four pals pulled off a robbery in Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...
...would see before him a long table . . . with candles burning at both ends . . . and a crucifix in the center . . . [The Germans] were informed or led to believe that they were being tried by Americans for violations of international law. At the other end of the table would be the prosecutor, who would read the charges, yell and scream at these 18-and 20-year-old plaintiffs and attempt to force confessions from them...
...monarchist," stormed the prosecutor, "but your pamphlets might well have been signed by the worst enemies of monarchy-the Communists...