Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reproducing the case. May I add that in the investigation that followed later [after Judge Wilkerson turned the "deal" down], after the pleas of guilty had been withdrawn, we did locate one witness who had eluded us for a year and a half, so that when we came to trial we were in better shape than we were at this time. We had given up hope of finding this witness. ... I told Judge Wilkerson that my greatest objective was to get Al Capone in the penitentiary, because my experience has always been that once these leaders have been imprisoned . . . they...
...Diocese of Norwich, at the head of an ecclesiastical court to hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
...balcony, never spoke, fascinated the gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout the trial the rector had trouble with taximen. One day he had to borrow his fare from a reporter. Chief witness was 17-year-old Barbara Harris, who first complained of the rector's behavior to his bishop. Counsel for the Defense, a Mr. Levy, quickly proved that Miss Harris had had promiscuous...
...remarks: "If improper thought comes to us, there is no harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage it." At the end of the service he took up a collection "for my work of helping my poor girls." At Walsingham. Norfolk, police court, the trial of Dr. Davidson for riding an unlighted bicycle at Stiffkey was adjourned last week "because the rector is on more important business in London...
...Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows that she has a better notion of the case than her associates. When all the rest vote "Guilty" she holds out for an acquittal...