Word: trenchard
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...vehemently announced that he had known nothing about the Wendel confession. Day before Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann...
Some other royal uppings of the week: the King's second son, the Duke of York, to be a vice admiral, a lieutenant general and a Marshal of the Royal Air Force; Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague ("Boom") Trenchard, Baron Trenchard of Wolfeton, London Police Commissioner from 1931 to 1935, to be a viscount; Miss Jackson, private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's wife, Lucy, to be an officer. Pianist Myra Hess to be a Commander, oldtime Suffragette Christabel Pankhurst to be a Dame Commander, of the Order of the British Empire...
...Directly in front of seat No. 13 (occupied by a newshawk) Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for his life at Flemington before Justice Trenchard...
...arguments the defense used to wedge a loophole through which Hauptmann might escape the death penalty, five were outstanding. It was argued that Hauptmann had been deprived of his constitutional rights when Justice Thomas W. Trenchard had admitted the kidnap ladder in evidence at the trial. Also cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor...
...still stood pat. Scooped by the newsreels, the tabloid New York Daily News and Hearst's Journal tried to catch up by splashing still shots from the films over several pages. Genuinely shocked and grieved by what he considered a violation of a gentlemen's agreement, Judge Trenchard ousted not only newsreels but also unoffending newspaper photographers from the courtroom, ordered deputies to arrest on sight any person caught with a camera in the room...