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This was considered last week the most damaging link in the chain of circumstantial evidence drawn by the Crown about the accused man's neck. On the last day of the trial, Ratanji jittered, wept, frequently wiped with a handkerchief his profusely perspiring hands. Yet there was still no direct evidence. After the jury verdict of guilty, Justice Singleton put on the black cap which in Britain means that sentence of Death is to be pronounced. "The law knows but one sentence," he cried, "for the terrible crime you have committed...
...devoted columns to his proud career, his intelligent use of a voice that was never booming, his subtle impersonations of such villains as Iago in Otello, Chim-Fen in L'Oracolo, Scarpia in Tosca (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). When he sang his farewell performance a great audience cheered, wept, sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When he died in Naples last week there were only four mourners to follow him to his grave...
...dirty liar!" wept Clayton Clawson. "The guy who sold me that told me it was nitroglycerin...
...what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that...
...five minutes the widow of "Wiley Post remained alone in a boxcar at Bartlesville, Okla., wept as she took leave of the crated Winnie May, off to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...