Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the trial, State's Witness Oxman is proved to have been at Woodland, Calif, at the time of the explosion he said he saw. State's Witness MacDonald, whose testimony was garbled to say the least, went to Trenton, N. J., became a waiter there. In 1921 he signed an affidavit that he had seen the bombing but not Mooney & Billings, that he only identified them when told to by the police. After the trial, the presiding judge, Frank Griffin, declared the conviction of Mooney was "one of the dirtiest jobs ever put over." The foreman of the convicting...
...three big iron prisoners' cages at Sciacca. Sicily last week 185 were placed on trial. The total would have been 214 except that the rest were "sick in their cells," according to the warden of Sciacca's jail...
...cage sat the Rev. Vincenzo Baiamonte. Archpriest of Burgio, and several former Mayors of local towns. Indeed last week's batch of alleged desperadoes were as different as possible from the 153 dirty, sullen men and savage, leering hags who sat in similar cages during the first mass Mafiosi trial at Termini Imerese (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week the well and in many cases elegantly dressed prisoners listened with composure while the Crown charged them with 43 murders, 26 attempted assassinations, blackmailings & robberies innumerable and, collectively, with "banding and conspiring together for criminal purposes...
...There are several thousand witnesses to be examined. The indictments alone comprise 69 large volumes. But, courage! I hope?and I prophesy, basing my prophecy on the accelerated tempo of the Regime?that with energy and zeal this trial will come to an end in less than half a year...
...book. Not so Author Thayer: his hero kills 39 people. But Thirteen Men is not a detective story, for the murders are all committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public...