Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fascinated, the criminologists, psychiatrists and judge prolonged the trial with enthusiasm and curiosity. Although the prisoner had already confessed to every charge, Teutons hoped that further probing would bring to light details precious to Science...
Unnerved by the prisoner's mild but fluttery behavior, several women whom he had stabbed and left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...
Left, By Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger. Philadelphia theatre-owner who was killed last month by his wife in Nice (TIME, March 23); some $725,000, one-third of the income of which goes to Mrs. Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger, who now awaits trial for murder, the balance to their two children, a previous wife, and a secretary; the whole at last to charity...
Died. Sir Edward Clarke, 90, "Grand Old Man" of the British Bar, onetime (1886-92) Solicitor General, barrister in the baccarat cheating case in which Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, figured (TIME, March 9) and the trial of Dr. Jameson who led "Jameson's Raid" into the Transvaal in 1895; in London. In the London Times appeared his obituary, written by himself, describing his "very busy and very happy life" and revealing that his income for 17 years averaged...
...Bellamy Trial. As a mystery story, this courtroom melodrama was a neat sifting and juggling of suspicious testimony, adequately convincing. As a play concocted by Author Frances Noyes Hart and Playwright Frank E. Carstarphen it is labored, lacking any of the dramatic flash which is found in the trial scene of The Silent Witness, its current cousin on Broadway...