Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearstpapers, the hero of the trial, Sergeant John Leopold* of the Canadian Mounted Police (TIME, Nov. 16), signed a piece beginning: "This is the story of my betrayal to the Communist organization, and my exile to the Yukon, the Canadian Siberia. . . . Life there is one of continual hardship, fighting against blizzards and ice on unmarked trails, with nothing but the urge of duty, the code of the Mounted to carry a man through...
...newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...
...Chicago. Walter Anuzic, 26, was held for trial in the Court of Domestic Relations on the complaints of four young women who said he had gotten them all with child. Walter Anuzic works in a baby carriage factory...
...Trial at Lübeck...
...items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory, takes up with bad companions, patronizes dance halls and chop-suey dens. While drunk he kills a friendly old delicatessen dealer. At the trial he dramatizes his predicament, undertakes to conduct the defense of himself & accomplices. He repents, too late, when he has been sentenced to death. Good shot: Eric Linden borrowing a dime from the prison attendant to give his small brother when he says goodbye...