Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When it became known that the basis of Fall's appeal would be alleged "forcing" of the verdict by Jury Foreman Thomas E. Norris, as exemplified by the Movietone juror story, newspapermen interviewed Mrs. Fall last week at El Paso, Tex. Elaborating on her Movietone revelation, she said: "The verdict was returned not out of the conviction of twelve men and women, but of only three, who forced the others to accede to their decision. . . . Daniel Weisbach told me that during the jury deliberation he paced the floor in agony of mind and heart, trying to stop his ears...
Newsgatherers soon sought out Juror Weisbach in Washington. He accused Mrs. Fall of falsehood. He had not asked her for "forgiveness," he said. He had not said that Thomas E. Norris, foreman of the jury, "forced" the verdict. He would not discuss the case further...
...implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper's key was to be made. In the power-house was unearthed a tomahawk-shaped utensil for short-circuiting all the lights in the old cellblock. Said Warden Lawes: "This was a scheme for a general jail delivery. . . . If it had succeeded we might have another riot like Dannemora...
...Rotarians were startled to read in their monthly magazine The Rotarian, some suggestions by Chicago War Hero Harold R. ("Private") Peat, "winner of more than one medal for distinguished service." Neither an artist nor an architect, Hero Peat's interest in a War memorial was not esthetic but moral. Said...
...Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning's legalistic views wondered whether he would allow such a service to be held in one of his Episcopal churches.* Said the bishop: "I have nothing...