Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's population is only one-third Catholic. . . . The Reich will not tolerate any interference with its internal life." Back on the calendar of German courts went the trials of Catholic nuns and priests for violations of the exchange laws diplomatically dropped last summer just before the Olympic Games. None of these came to trial last week, but as a feeler the People's Prosecutor took up the case of Chaplain Joseph Roussaint of Düsseldorf. Effort was made to prove the chaplain the organizer and ringleader of a united Catholic-Communist front. So little evidence...
Last week 16 hospital employes and the president of the Hospital Employes' Union, Fred Gardner, went on trial as a result of that strike. In addition to routine accusations of forcible entry & detainer, committing & maintaining a public nuisance, conspiracy to prevent others from working, they were charged with violating a New York statute passed in 1881. "A person who wilfully and maliciously . . . breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing . . . that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious...
...York police is so extensive that up to last week no prosecutor ever dared to cite it in a labor dispute. Brooklyn's Assistant District Attorney Edward Levine nonetheless used it last week and won convictions of all the accused. While the three justices who presided over the trial retired for a week to cogitate sentences which may amount to twelve years' imprisonment for each of the 17, the Jewish Hospital's original malcontent, Telephone Operator Rhatigan, continued to picket the institution. Director Hinenburg, fed up with labor troubles, announced that he was quitting...
...Texas and Florida testimony, Surrogate Harry E. Owen of Essex County. N. Y. called for a resumption of probate hearings. More convenient for all concerned with these memorable hearings than Surrogate Owen's little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry was a comfortable green-tinted trial room in Manhattan's Bar Building...
...week end in Chicago last January the jury hearing the second embezzlement trial of ousted Superior Court Clerk Frank V. Zintak spent most of its time on a tour of saloons in the neighborhood as well as some that were far enough away from the Criminal Courts Building to require a bus ride to reach them. Keeper of the twelve men was Former Deputy Sheriff Daniel Miller, who went along...