Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last November 41 defendants went on trial in Chicago for using the mails to defraud 70,000 Midwesterners out of $1,350,000 (TIME, Dec. 2). The dupes were supposed to divide a fabulous estate left by Sir Francis Drake, 16th Century English sea rover. Wholesale exonerations had so reduced the ranks of the accused that last week only eight of those originally indicted remained in court to hear sentences passed against them. Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan began by imposing five years imprisonment on Canfield Hartzell. Hartzell's brother Oscar had started out as a "Drake Estate" sucker...
...September 1933, David Lamson's first trial was concluded at San Jose. The State of California contended that Lamson's motives for killing his wife were his affection for a Sacramento divorcee and his wife's repulsion of his amatory advances, that he wilfully killed her by bashing in the back of her head with an iron pipe. The defense called Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur and best man at the Lamsons' wedding, to substantiate its contention that Mrs. Lamson killed herself accidentally by falling...
...October 1934, the California Supreme Court snatched David Lamson back from the shadow of the gallows, granted him a new trial. Declared the Court: "It is true that he may be guilty, but the evidence thereof is no stronger than mere suspicion...
...sergeants of a force fundamentally dedicated to class warfare. Plenty of them had been under fire. There was chunky Bill Blizzard, a delegate from West Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around the world in coal mines, had been fired on for distributing handbills in Pennsylvania. In a thoroughly rebellious...
During the long trial, which investigated every detail of the catastrophe, the defense maintained that the huge death list was in part due to "an act of God," in part to "a defect" in the ship's construction, that in any case the defendants did all in their power to protect the passengers...