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...Pritt, a Londoner who makes a specialty of defending Communist causes, ticked off 60 grounds of appeal for Kenyatta, at least 20 for each of his associates. When he finished, the two judges threw out the convictions on one of the technicalities raised by Barrister Pritt: Chief Judge Ransley Thacker, the trial magistrate, had no jurisdiction in the isolated village of Kapenguria, where the trial took place, because his appointment was to a different province of the colony. The government had blundered, the court held, but Kenyatta and his cronies must stand trial again. Up jumped Defense Attorney Pritt...
Wearily, Judge Ransley S. Thacker answered: "I don't believe you. I think that soon after you came back from Europe, you began to organize this Mau Mau society with the object of driving out the Europeans and of killing them if necessary. I am satisfied that the master mind behind this plan was yours, and that you took the fullest advantage of your power over your people and their primitive instincts...
...sentence: seven years hard labor for Kenyatta and his five accomplices. After the sentencing, Judge Thacker was flown to safety in Uganda, a trip of 500 miles over forests and mountains where lurk the Mau Mau, who have sworn to kill him with their burning spears...
...Davidson was by no means stunned, nor were the Wildcats out of the game until Ederer scored the Crimson's fourth touchdown at three minutes of the final quarter. Working alternately from a T-formation and a single wing, quarterback Jack Ruth and halfbacks Gray, Henry Brown, and Jimmy Thacker took advantage of some breaks and kept the offense moving...
...almost the entire first-string Davidson backfield was inactive for some time with injuries. Halfbacks Brown and Gray were carried to the field house on stretchers after the game, having sustained injuries late in the second half. Fullback Leroy Fargason was hurt in the first period, and Thacker left the game in the third...