Tag: January 1926
Walter McCoy, Capital Punishment Debate, District of Columbia 1926
In a tense showdown at the District of Columbia’s House Judiciary Committee, Chief Justice Walter McCoy of the District Supreme Court and Judge Mary O’Toole of the Municipal Court faced off over the contentious issue of capital punishment. The hearing, held on January 30, 1926, aimed to quash the death penalty in the nation’s capital,…
Prohibition’s Broken Machinery: A House of Cards Built on Lies
In a stark admission of the failures of Prohibition enforcement, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln Andrews and US District Attorney Emory I. Buckner laid bare the inadequacies of the judicial system at the annual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League in Washington, D.C. on January 26, 1926. Both sons of ministers, Andrews and Buckner spoke…
Bribes and Badges: A Scandal Rocks Indy’s Police Force
January 14, 1926, was a day of reckoning for the Indianapolis Police Department. Deputy Attorney General Joe Rand Beckett dropped a bombshell, alleging that several officers had been bribed by bootleggers. The scandal highlighted the need for reform, and Beckett was at the forefront of the call for change. He proposed a manager form of…
Walter P. Stephenson, Murder, Ohio 1926
It’s been a quiet week in West Union, Ohio, but beneath the surface, something is brewing. The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Defender Publishing Company is set to take place on January 22, 1926, at the office of The Peoples Defender. The air is thick with anticipation, but what exactly are they discussing…
Gillioms Gamble, Rate Hike Manipulation, Indiana 2024
INDIANAPOLIS, January 12, 1926 – In a move that has left the public reeling, Attorney General Arthur Gilliom has called for a rate hike for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. The request, made before the public service commission, has sparked outrage among those who believe the utility is already making a tidy profit. Related Federal…
Seine of Despair: Paris Braces for Catastrophic Floods
January 7, 1926, will be a day etched in the memories of Parisians as the city teetered on the brink of disaster. The Seine, swollen from record rainfall, threatened to reclaim the very heart of the City of Light. The waters crept higher, inching closer to the disastrous flood level of 1910, which left a…
Ferguson’s Free Pass: Texas Governor’s Record Clemency Raises Eyebrows
Since her inauguration on January 2, 1926, Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson has been on a pardon spree, issuing a whopping 1,110 proclamations, with a staggering 1,315 of those being clemency proclamations. The records, now stored in the secretary of state’s office, reveal a remarkable trend. Out of these, 20 were revocations of conditional pardons,…
