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50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, October 1, 1946

GOERING, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Keitel, Jodl, and Von Neurath were found guilty today on all four counts of the international tribunal's indictment. Three others - Hjalmar Schacht, the financial expert, Franz Von Papen, the diplomat, and Hans Fritzsche, the radio propaganda chief - were found not guilty and discharged. The other 13 were pronounced guilty on one or more of the counts. Sentence of death by hanging was passed on Goering, Ribbentrop, Streicher, Keitel, Frank, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frick, Sauckel, Jodl, Seyss-Inquart, Bormann (in his absence). Hess and Raider were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The counts were (1) Common plan or conspiracy, (2) crimes against peace, (3) war crimes, and (4) crimes against humanity.

125 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, September 30, 1871

MR BIRCH, the sculptor entrusted with the intended statue to Dr Chadwick, has intimated to R.G. Hinnell, Esq., town clerk, and secretary to the Memorial Committee, that he had proceeded with the statue as far as he can without further instructions. The statue has been finished in bronze some months, and is now only awaiting the inscription for the pedestal, and also the design of the Orphanage to be placed in relief at the base of the statue. It is intended that as soon as Mr Alderman Barlow, who was President of the Committee at the time it was formed, and has always taken considerable interest in the movement, returns from his tour of the continent, to convene a meeting of the Memorial Committee for the purpose of giving the sculptor the requisite instructions.

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