Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month in her little schoolhouse outside Maryville, Mo., Schoolma'am Velma Colter, 20, was raped, murdered. To the crime Raymond Gunn, Negro, confessed. Last week he was being taken from the Maryville jail to the courthouse to stand trial when a mob snatched him out of the hands of Sheriff Havre English, noisily marched him out of town toward the rural schoolhouse. Hundreds followed the procession, heard Gunn beg for mercy...
Meanwhile in the supreme court George F. Ewald and his attractive wife went on trial on a charge of paying $10,000 to Tammany Hall underlings for his appointment as magistrate. State witnesses quoted him as boasting of the payment, as speculating out loud about raising $100.000 with which to secure a seat on a higher court...
...Willmott Lewis, newly knighted Washington correspondent of the London Times, gave a party for the purpose of playing MURDER. Directress of the ?ame: his sister-in-law, Frances Noyes Hart (The Bellamy Trial, Hide in the Dark). Rules of the game: two players are chosen as "detectives," sent from the room while lots are drawn to determine who shall be the "murderer." Then the lights are turned out, the "murderer" picks and "assassinates'' his victim. The lights are turned on and the "detectives" examine the "corpse," question the witnesses. All are bound to tell the truth except...
...apartments and his farmhouse in Westchester County (all full of expensive antiques, which he collects passionately) to promote Carbon Petroleum Dubbs's inventions and to direct patent suits such as the one against Standard of Indiana, which already has cost $1,800,000, is still to come to trial. Previously he had helped Armour retrieve a failing investment, Standard Asphalt & Rubber Co., and sell it to Oilman Henry Latham Doherty. His share in the profits last week...
...tendency of a small group of undergraduates to create disturbances in the subway following hockey games this winter brings to head a problem which has been growing for three years. Last week there was considerable disorder, and one Freshman was arrested who stood trial in the Juvenile session of the District Court...