Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompaniment, Negroes Townes and McDaniels were led handcuffed from the courtroom. If their minds registered anything as the sheriff and two deputies escorted them down the back stairs to return them to jail, it was relief. The Court had assigned counsel to defend them, set a date for trial by jury. Everything was according to law. But when they stepped out of a side door of the courthouse, they found themselves face to face with what so often handles cases like theirs in the South. An angry mob surged forward, took them from the custody of their guardians without...
Manhattan Lawyer Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. was summoned to court in Syracuse, N. Y. for failure to pay his wife $150-a-month alimony pending trial of her separation suit...
Last week this suit, first of its kind the Cistercians had ever experienced, came to trial in Superior Court in Providence. To present the monastery's case there had to be witnesses, and witnesses must talk. The Prior of the Cistercians dispensed Brother Hugh and Father Aëlred (Frank J. Walsh, late of the Royal Flying Corps) from their vows of silence. Their unaccustomed words were not notable. Father Aëlred described the nature of the monastery, Brother Hugh described Devro's accident. But most damaging to the plaintiff's case were Mrs. Devro...
...they will leave town. Her only friend, an amiable gambler named Buster Niles (James Rennie), knocks down and fatally injures a man who accuses him of sleeping with Miss Quis. This gives her enemies a chance to get back at her by editing their testimony at Niles's trial, but she buys them off by doubling her offers and Niles goes free with a suspended sentence for manslaughter. In the autumn he goes back to propose marriage, but he has been forbidden to live in the town and Miss Quis feels too deeply rooted to leave...
...Times's Arthur Krock suggested that a hint of cheaper gold prices might be useful in negotiating trade and money pacts with Britain, the Empire being by all odds the world's biggest gold producer.* Even if the Administration did not loose the gold rumor as a trial balloon, it certainly did not shoot it down on sight...