Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, July 23, 1934 death within a few months in 1692, eight being executed at once in a final demonstration which produced a public revulsion against the practice. The one pressed to death was Giles Cory, 80, who had refused to plead at trial. He was laid on the ground, bound hand & foot, and stones piled upon his body until his tongue protruded. The Sheriff poked Cory's tongue back inside with his cane...
...lockman" started the trial by "fencing" the court in the name of the King. The jury was taken to the scene of the smashup. Attorney-General Moore outlined the case: ''If we find there is an explanation of this accident we will all be very happy. But if you are forced to the conclusion that this happened because Kaye Don chose to race 60 m. p. h. on the public highway in failing light and caused this man's death, then it will be your unpleasant duty to find him guilty...
...reporting such bits of the trial as this. Alberta Opposition papers went to such lengths last week that Mr. Justice Ives before whom the suit was being heard decided there had been contempt of court by reporters and their publishers...
Divorced. Edward Francis Willis James, son of the late Mrs. William ("Willy") James, famed Edwardian hostess; from Ottilie E. ("Tilly") Losch James, Viennese dancer; in London. The divorce followed a sensational eight-day trial at the close of which Mrs. James and Prince Serge Obolensky, who was named corespondent, were ordered to pay costs...
Challenger. A new rule for the America's Cup races gives the challenger the right to change entry up to within 60 days of the first race, if trials produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks...