Word: therapeutist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury of indignant farmers to decide the Scaccio case. Verdict: guilty. Gangster Scaccio faces a minimum imprisonment of ten years. He and his chief will...
...himself strung the farmer up himself lit matches and held them under the farmer's wriggling feet, himself set fire to Parks's old-fashioned underdrawers. Three State witnesses placed Diamond near the scene of the crime around the time it happened. Five men, including a "physio-therapeutist"' and a jobless street-cleaning commissioner, presented the alibi: that Diamond was in Albany, many miles away. The jury voted "Not Guilty." Attorney General Bennett declared himself "stunned! . . . But I intend to continue the prosecution." Observers thought he would try to get perjury indictments for those who came forward...
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