Word: santos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME is to be commended for the space given [May 23] to the statement of Judge Jerome Frank in the Santo Caminito case regarding illegal and brutal police methods...
Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get a confession-and they...
...Santo Caminito was thrown into a bedless cell. His family and a lawyer retained by relatives were denied permission to see him. Relays of detectives questioned him for 27 hours, giving him almost no rest. To show Caminito how hopeless his cause was, the police worked a trick: a male detective and two women from the pickpocket squad, posing as witnesses to the crime, confronted Caminito and pretended to identify him as the driver of the getaway car. Caminito finally signed a confession (he later signed a second one) and was duly sentenced to life in prison after the confessions...
Ichthyologist Carl Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been writing the history of California's climate as far back as 2000 B.C. Five years ago, studying water temperatures off Lower California, he camped at Santo Tomas, and with a true scientist's curiosity about things that did not directly concern him, he dug into an ancient Indian camp site and turned up the shell of a cryptochiton, a large, limpet-like mollusk...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...