Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posed and spoke for Fox Movietone News. The film contained "news" which had escaped or been rejected by the newspapers. Mrs. Fall declared: "The jury . . . stood on the second ballot nine for acquittal, two for conviction. The twelfth and last man who came over to the eleven for conviction, three days later came to me in tears begging forgiveness. He had not slept, had walked the floor since his terrible mistake, praying God to forgive his terrible weakness...
...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 to the flood of arguments advanced by those who wanted a verdict of guilty. Finally...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...
...Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
...frustration of a jailbreak plot at Sing Sing, in which Pal Ryan was embroiled. Warden Lewis Edward Lawes of Sing Sing keeps the most desperate of his charges in the thick-walled, century-old cellblock (TIME, Nov. 18). From an outside "wire" (tipoff) he learned that Ryan and three others in old Sing Sing were concocting a plot. Slyly he watched them. Suddenly the four were seized, their cells searched. In one were found draftsman's designs of implements to be used in an escape. In another was discovered a wooden key model from which a duplicate of the keeper...