JUDGE CALLS OUT GALLERY FOR 'GIGGLING' AT TESTIMONY, SAYS THEY ARE 'HUMAN BUZZARDS'
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 29, 1924, Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy*, in Criminal Court #2, characterized those in the gallery "giggling" at testimony given in a white slavery trial as "human buzzards."
Justice McCoy threatened to remove them from his courtroom if this inappropriate behavior continued and said...
"There are about 100 persons here who should be ashamed...they have not even the decency to respect the feelings of a woman who has gone wrong."
*Walter Irving McCoy (1859-1933) was born in Troy, New York & graduated Harvard University 1882 & 1886. WIM served as associate justice 1914-1918 & chief justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 1918-1929.
JFK+50 NOTE
Miles E. Conkling of Tuxedo, New York was charged with violation of the Mann Act by bringing Mrs. Rose Rhinesmith to Washington, D.C. for immoral purposes.
The Mann Act (1910) prohibits the transport of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or any other immoral purpose.
