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The Newark Journal
Newark, Independence County, Arkansas
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In London on Armistice Day, the city observed two minutes of silence at 11 o'clock. During a murder trial in a dingy courtroom, the proceedings halted; the prisoner, a WWI veteran, reflected on his war experiences in France before the judge sentenced him to hang.
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Pathetic Happening in English Court That Marked the Observance of Armistice Day
The great clocks of London boomed out eleven strokes. The city became as silent as though it were a sleeping Pompeii risen from its ashes. Motor cars and trucks creaked to sudden stops. Policemen stood like graven blue images at their posts. Pedestrians doffed their hats and stood as though they had lost motion for centuries. It was Armistice day and the city was doing honor to those youths who had experienced the Great Adventure.
In a dingy courtroom a murder trial came to a sudden halt. Judge, counsel, witnesses and the prisoner stood and for two minutes, with bowed head, in silent reverence to those poppies wreathed graves of France. Before the prisoner flickered visions of that same France only one year before. He again saw the faces of comrades he had loved and whom he had watched in the throes of death. Incidents of that last desperate sprint across No Man's Land, with death on every side, came back to him. Again he heard the shout with which the trenches had greeted the armistice. He had come safely through, and now-
The two minutes ended. The city came out of its trance. The somber voice of the judge resumed- "and shall hang by the neck until dead."
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London
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Armistice Day
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prisoner sentenced to hang by the neck until dead
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The city of London observed two minutes of silence at eleven o'clock on Armistice Day to honor WWI dead. In a dingy courtroom, a murder trial halted; judge, counsel, witnesses, and the prisoner stood in silent reverence. The prisoner, a veteran, recalled his experiences in France one year prior, including comrades' deaths, the sprint across No Man's Land, and the armistice shout. After the silence, the judge resumed sentencing.