Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Dec. 31, you published an alleged account of the trial of E. K. Harris, a Negro, on a charge of rape, in the Circuit Court of Bedford County, Tenn...
...Last week Tennessee wiped away its 13-year-old stain with the blood of four white men." This is absolutely untrue, as at this trial there existed no race prejudice...
Same day Stenographer Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...
...Francisco, Calif., Nazzareno Tinti was sentenced to life imprisonment after confessing to the murder of John Pavia. At trial's end Widow Pavia rose from counsel's table to find herself face-to-face with Wife Tinti. ''An eye for an eye," screamed the widow, "a tooth for a tooth." Then abruptly she slumped, sobbing, into the other's arms. 'I am sorry. I am sorry." moaned the wife. Closely embraced, widow and wife wept together...
...that in 1926 he shot and killed one D. E. Chipps, friend of Fort Worth's mayor whom Pastor Norris was then denouncing, did not bother the Baptists of First Church. Pastor Norris said he shot (four times) in self-defense because he thought Chipps was armed. A trial jury believed...