Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until last week it was not known that the Association had given Commissioner Mulrooney $15,000 to purchase information leading to the arrest and trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg for the murder of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff (Vivian Gordon). Stein and Greenberg were subsequently acquitted (TIME, July 27). The Association gave the money, but kept quiet about it, because the Bischoff murder for a time cast a shadow over the Police Department...
Without the aid of a "good alibi," and near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only...
Over a month ago Lord Kylsant's trial began (TIME, June 15). He was accused on two counts: 1) misleading Royal Mail stockholders in 1926 and 1927 by publishing statements showing annual net profits of over a million dollars, when the company was actually losing nearly three times that much and dividends were being paid from a secret reserve fund of which the stockholders had no knowledge; 2) issuing a false prospectus of debenture stocks "with intent to induce persons to entrust or advance property to the company...
...charge was relatively simple, the trial extremely complex. Conducted by Attorney General Sir William Jowitt and defended by "Britain's foremost barrister," Sir John Simon of Indian Commission fame, the trial resolved itself into a debate on business ethics with the text: Should a company director tell-and how much? Lord Kylsant thought a director should not tell...
...fruit of Lord Irwin's gag law. Murtz Ahmad Khan, editor of the (Persian-language) weekly Afghanistan, recently had published an editorial under the heading: WHY DOES NOT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN RESIGN? This violated Lord Irwin's law; Murtz Ahmad Khan was arrested, put on trial...