Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial No. 2 for Codreanu followed the 1933 murder of Premier Ion Duca. Arrested as an accomplice, Codreanu denied any part in the assassination, but later, having been acquitted, bragged publicly that Iron Guard members had drawn lots to choose the assassin. Meanwhile, scores of students, policemen, professors, politicians became victims of Iron Guard terrorism. Last year one of his lieutenants, Jon Stelescu, left him, founded his own party, the Rumanian Crusaders. Shortly afterward, Apostate Stelescu was stabbed and shot to death. In a "heads-shall-roll" list discovered by Rumanian police, Stelescu's party had placed...
Meanwhile, from behind Rightist lines last week came the report that many U. S. volunteers captured earlier in the war had been summarily shot without trial, most of them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other...
...grey, dapper Playboy Thaw is much poorer than he was three decades ago. Some years ago Dr. Jelliffe declared that Thaw had never paid him for his services at the second trial. In 1929 he sued Thaw, but in 1932 his case was thrown out under the statute of limitations. Undaunted, the neurologist sued again, for $10,250, and last week a jury in a U. S. District Court awarded...
...Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost three hours' deliberation found Donald "not guilty by reason of insanity...
...defense (there were 57 defense attorneys) together spent a total of about $3,000,000. In addition, conviction carried a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine or a year in jail for each executive and a $5,000 fine for each company. With motions for a new trial still under consideration, sentence has not yet been imposed...