Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Jefferson for President, only to be kicked downstairs into the Vice-Presidency by vote of the House of Representatives. Cast out by both parties for killing Alexander Hamilton, he nevertheless had impeccably executed one of the final duties of his office, that of presiding at the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. And all the while, unpredictable Aaron Burr had been dickering with the British Minister at Philadelphia for funds to split off the nation's West from the East. The adventurer Burr interested Blennerhassett in a different scheme: to colonize a portion of the Mississippi...
Twenty defendants, 50 lawyers, 250 witnesses and 2,000 questions for decision faced a far from bewildered jury in Paris last week as the "Stavisky Trial" opened at last in the Palace of Justice. The jurors, briskly selected by a red-robed judge, were not bewildered because all aspects of the trial had been listed with forethought and precision on a sort of "score card" for the jury's special benefit. The defense lawyers, temperamental as prima donnas, opened with shouts for more chairs which soon reached the pitch of shrieks...
Their indentity still remaining a police secret, the nine students who will serve as witnesses at the trial will not be summoned until next week as police feel sure postponement will be granted by Judge Robert Walcott...
Frank Foster, Dunster House janitor, will leave the Baker Memorial Hospital tomorrow, out of danger, but minus the sight of one eye. At the same time nine summonses will be served on students in the College to appear at the East Cambridge Court on Thursday to testify in the trial which will determine Foster's assailant...
Sued for Separation. Edward J. Reilly. 53, owlish, bulky chief defense counsel at the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann; by Fleurette Reilly, 31, his fifth wife (according to Fleurette Reilly) ; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: abusive treatment, drunkenness, "association with women of lewd and questionable habits.'' Lawyer Reilly had previously filed a separation suit of his own, charging that his wife tore his clothes, broke his glasses...