Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warn you that the 2 Bird bros. you have in for bank robbery have it all set to break out at 3 o'clock this afternoon with their pal Widmer. . . ." A special guard was placed around the cells of Frank and Charles Bird, young Missouri desperadoes awaiting trial for bank robbery, and their friend James Widmer who last year escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. Nothing happened...
Last week, shortly after his wife, Barbara Bird, had paid a call on him in jail, Charles Bird cornered two deputies with two guns, put them in a cell while he released his brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square...
This week Kentucky was shocked again and General Denhardt's troubles were over forever. Free on $25,000 bail, on the eve of a second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
...Government Reports contributed by Richard T. Davis and Harold Van B. Cleveland. I found them, nevertheless, interesting and instructive. A good word is to be said for the comprehensive treatment of the works of Professor Rupert Emerson and of Professor Borchard and Lago reviewed in "Malaysia: Imperialism on Trial" and "The Uplift in Foreign Affairs" by Casper W. Weinberger and G. S. Viereck, Jr. respectively...
...Presidents' collection are books owned and signed by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hoover and Coolidge, as well as others. Lincoln's Shakspere volumes, and a signed letter from the 16th President are shown. The only book from the library of Andrew Johnson is the text of his impeachment trial proceedings, together with a ticket of admission to the trial. Herbert Hoover's own copy of "American Individualism" of which he was the author is likewise displayed. The books are, for the most part, the gift of Henry S. Howe...