Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing "Sam Layton" to escape. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, the second in a directed verdict of acquittal...
...Weatherly crash. Driver Al Gordon, pinned under the wreck, was pulled out alive with his steel helmet ground paper-thin against the wall. For the first 250 miles, the youngest driver in the field, Rex Mays of Los Angeles, who won the pole position for his record-breaking qualifying trial, set the pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that...
...manage to get out of the trench. The commander orders a court martial to try one man from each company in the attacking battalion for "cowardice in the face of the enemy." The meticulous account of the methods of choosing these victims of military discipline, of the trial, and of the carrying out of the inevitable sentence, is nerve-rackingly exciting. Not the least skilful touch is the placing on the last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these...
...first "holy smuggling" trial fortnight ago was that of Sister Wernera (born Katherine Weidenhöfer) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Cologne. Years ago the Sisters of Charity borrowed $100,000 from Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. of St. Louis to complete a nursing hospital in Cologne. On the dot the sisters met installments of their debt, until just $25,000 remained owing by 1935. A Dr. Hofius, good Catholic layman, of the Münster Bank in Westphalia, suggested how this last amount might be paid off. By elaborate code (whenever Mercantile-Commerce...
...long for Repeal. Last week Governor Talmadge certified that Repeal had been beaten by 243 votes.* Same day, Methodist McBrayer was suspended from his pastorate, charged with "aiding and abetting the sale of intoxicating liquor as a beverage in violation of the discipline of the Church." Told to stand trial or surrender his credentials, he chose trial...