Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under Federal Statutes, no person may be prosecuted, tried or punished unless an indictment is found within a certain number of years of the alleged offense. This does not extend to any person fleeing from justice. Treason or other capital offense (wilful murder excepted) 3 years...
...Lord of the Mountains, as he was called, was not to get off so easily. Abd ordered him and his family transferred to the Riff country, the rough mountainous district in the interior of the Spanish Moroccan zone. Allegedly, he is to stand trial by court martial for high treason. The verdict is already known, as is the sentence: Raisuli is not to be executed, for he is a descendant of the Prophet and must not be killed; he is to be condemned to reside for the remainder of his life within the four walls of Abd-el-Krim...
...criticized adversely for extravagance, for maintaining a larger army than conditions warrant, for costly foreign embassies. But more striking than this are comments from Mrs. Casement, widow of the notorious Roger Casement, executed during the war for treason, from St. John Ervine, famed Irish novelist and dramatist, from John Dillon, onetime leader of the Home Rule Party...
...three months in jail and payment of all costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...Berlin, the Cabinet marched in a body to the Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...