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# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/Man Is Tried for Thirty-three Murders

Man Is Tried for Thirty-three Murders
VAS KOMAROV, a Russian, was recently tried in Moscow for murdering thirty-three persons, and, because of the wide public interest in the unusual case, the trial was held in the large Polytechnic Museum instead of a court room. Before his trial, Komarov said he hoped the court would speedily condemn him to be shot, and added that he found "murder an awfully easy thing." He said that the only victim who ever resisted him was a man who had tried to cheat him in a horse trade. The others were knocked on the head with a hammer or strangled.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 15/Issue 1/Ougabalys

From Weird Tales Volume 15, Issue 1
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Ougabalys by Clark Ashton Smith
In billow-lost Poseidonis
I was the god Ougabalys:
My three horns were of similor
Above my double diadem,
My one eye was a moon-wan gem
Found in a monstrous meteor.
Incredible far peoples came,
Called by the thunders of my fame,
And fleetly passed my terraced throne,
Where titan pards and lions stood,
As pours a never-lapsing flood
Before the wind of winter blown.
Before me, many a chorister
Made offering of alien myrrh,
And copper-bearded sailors brought,
From isles of ever-foaming seas,
Enormous lumps of ambergris
And corals intricately wrought.
Below my glooming architraves,
One brown eternal file of slaves
Came in from mines of chalcedon,
And camels from the long plateaux
Laid down their sard and peridoz,
Their incense and their cinnamon.
But now, within my sunken walls,
The slow blind ocean-serpent crawls,
And sea-worms are my ministers;
And wondering fishes pass me now,
Or press before mine eyeless brow
As once the thronging worshipers.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1

WEIRD TALES The Unique Magazine
EDWIN BAIRD, Editor
Published monthly by THE RURAL PUBLISHING CORPORATION, 326 North Capitol Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind. Entered as second-class matter March 20, 1923, at the postoffice at Indianapolis, Ind. under the act of March 3, 1870. Single copies, 26 cents. Subscription, $3 a year in the United States; $3.50 a year in Canada. The publishers are not responsible for the loss of unsolicited manuscripts, although every care will be taken of such material while in our possession. All manuscripts and other editorial matters should be directed to WEIRD TALES, 854 North Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. The contents of this magazine are fully protected by copyright, and publishers are cautioned against using the same, either wholly or in part.
Copyright, 1923, by the Rural Publishing Corporation.
Contents for July-August, 1923
Thirteen Thrilling Short StoriesTwo Complete Novelettes Two Two-Part StoriesInteresting, Odd and Weird Happenings
SUNFIRE FRANCIS STEVENS 2
Harrowing Events Which Startle Five Adventurers Who Land Upon a Faroff Island
THE OUTCASTS GEORGE WARBURTON LEWIS 14
A Story of Stark Adventure With an Uncanny Climax
THE ROOM OF THE BLACK VELVET DRAPES B. W. SLINEY 18
DOCTOR X CULPEPER CHUNN 21
A Good Short Story
THE TWO MEN WHO MURDERED EACH OTHER VALMA CLARK 23
A Remarkable Novelette
THE STRANGE CASE OF JACOB ARUM JOHN HARRIS BURLAND 33
A Sardonic Novel of Witchcraft
BLACK CUNJER ISABEL WALKER 46
A Short Tale of Black Superstition
SHADES BRYAN IRVINE 49
A Realistic Ghost Story
VOODOOISM WILL W. NELSON 55
A Special Story About a Weird Cult
SENORITA SERPENTE EARL WAYLAND BOWMAN 57
A Strange Tale of the Mayan Snake Worshipers
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER D. L. RADWAY 61
A Terrifying Ghost Story
RIDERS IN THE DARK VINCENT STARRETT 63
A Grim Tale of Self Sacrifice
MANDRAKE ADAM HULL SHIRK 66
An Uncanny Tale of a Flesh Colored Plant
PEOPLE VS. BLAND THEODORE SNOW WOOD 69
The Mysterious Midnight Visitor Played an Important Part in this Murder Trial
THE EVENING WOLVES PAUL ELLSWORTH TRIEM 73
Final Installment of this Exciting Tale of Chinatown
THE CORPSE ON THE THIRD SLAB OTIS ADELBERT KLINE 76
Weird Tale of Happenings in a Morgue
THE GUARD OF HONOR PAUL SUTER 79
The Author of "Beyond the Door" Spins Another Eerie Tale in His Masterful Style
THE CAULDRON PRESTON LANGLEY HICKEY 85
True Adventures of Terror
THE EYRIE THE EDITOR 87
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/Author Sues "Egyptian Spook"

Author Sues "Egyptian Spook"
MIMI STEFANESCO, famous medium of Bucharest, has been sued for one million francs libel by Maurice Dewaleffe, French author, who claims that she is an imposter. The trouble arose over an Egyptian romance by M. Dewaleffe and Mimi's claim that she was in constant communication with ancient Egyptians, who told her a connected story of romantic happenings in the court of King Amenophias IV.
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# Weird Tales/Volume 14/Issue 6/Fantaisie d'Antan

From Weird Tales Volume 14, Issue 6
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Fantaisie D'antan by Clark Ashton Smith
Lost and alien lie the leas,
Purfled all with euphrasies,
Where the lunar unicorn
Breasts an amber-pouring morn
Risen from hesperian seas
Of a main that has no bourn.
Only things impossible
There in deathless glamor dwell:
Pegasus and sagittary,
Trotting, part the ferns of faery,
Succubi and seraphim
Tryst among the cedars dim;
Where the beaded waters brim,
White limoniads arise,
Interlacing arms and tresses
With the sun-dark satyresses;
There, on Aquilonian skies,
Gryphons, questing to and fro
For the gold of long ago,
Find at eve an aureate star
In the gulf crepuscular;
There the Hyperboreans,
Pale with wisdom more than man's,
Tell the wileful centauresses
Half their holocryptic lore;
There, at noon, the tritonesses,
All bemused with mandragore,
Mate with satyrs of the shore.
Love, could we have only found
The forgotten road that runs
Under all the sunken suns
To that time-estrangèd ground,
Surely, love were proven there
More than long and lone despair;
Holden and felicitous,
Love were fortunate to us;
And we too might ever dwell,
Deathless and impossible,
In those amber-litten leas,
Circled all with euphrasies.
# Weird Tales/Volume 2/Issue 1/Girl Afflicted With Strange Malady

Girl Afflicted With Strange Malady
A STRANGE case of insanity is that of a prominent young woman of Danville, Illinois, who has been sent to the State Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. The girl was obsessed with he idea that her health was failing and could be restored only by tobacco. She therefore bought large quantities of smoking and chewing tobacco, which she used in an effort to "become large and strong."
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# Walker v. State Harbor Commissioners/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
84 U.S. 648
Walker v. State Harbor Commissioners
The alcaldes of the pueblo of San Francisco possessed no authority to grant any lands covered by the tide-waters of the bay. The grants, therefore, under which the plaintiff claims were inoperative to pass any title to the premises. This is admitted by counsel on both sides, and the only question presented by the record for our determination is whether the grants were confirmed by the act of the legislature of May 14th, 1861.
That question is not an open one for this court. It has received its authoritative solution by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the State. In the case of The People v. Davidson, the question arose in that court whether the premises, upon which the defendants there had constructed a wharf, which were the same premises in controversy here, belonged to the defendants, who claimed them under the same alcalde grants and the same act of the legislature of May 14th, 1861, and the court, after full and extended consideration, held that the terms 'tide lands,' used in the act, applied only to lands covered and uncovered by the tides, and did not include lands permanently submerged by the waters of the bay of San Francisco; that the alcalde grants confirmed by the act were grants only of tide lands as thus defined, and did not embrace the grants under which the defendants claimed, and that the premises, so far as they lay below the line of low-water mark, belonged to the State.
It is not for us to express any opinion as to what would be our construction of the act had the Supreme Court of the State never spoken on the subject. In the construction of the statutes of a State, and especially those affecting titles to real property, where no Federal question arises, this court follows the adjudications of the highest court of the State. Its interpretation is accepted as the true interpretation, whatever may be our opinion of its original soundness. It becomes a part of the statute, as much so as if incorporated into the body of it, and in following the statute as thus interpreted we only apply to a local question the law of the place. As has been often remarked, infinite mischiefs would result if, in construing State statutes affecting titles to real property, where no Federal question is involved, a different rule were adopted by the Federal tribunals from that of the State courts.
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED.

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* ↑ 30 California, 379.
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# Walker v. Sauvinet/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
92 U.S. 90
Walker v. Sauvinet
So far as we can discover from the record, the only Federal question decided by either one of the courts below was that which related to the right of Walker to demand a trial by jury, notwithstanding the provisions of the act of 1871 to the contrary. He insisted that he had a constitutional right to such a trial, and that the statute was void to the extent that it deprived him of this right.
All questions arising under the Constitution of the State alone are finally settled by the judgment below. We can consider only such as grow out of the Constitution of the United States. By art. 7 of the amendments, it is provided, that 'in suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.' This, as has been many times decided, relates only to trials in the courts of the United States. Edwards v. Elliot, 21 Wall. 557. The States, so far as this amendment is concerned, are left to regulate trials in their own courts in their own way. A trial by jury in suits at common law pending in the State courts is not, therefore, a privilege or immunity of national citizenship, which the States are forbidden by the [[Additional amendments to the United States Constitution#Amendment XIV|Fourteenth Amendment]]s to abridge. A State cannot deprive a person of his property without due process of law; but this does not necessarily imply that all trials in the State courts affecting the property of persons must be by jury. This requirement of the Constitution is met if the trial is had according to the settled course of judicial proceedings. Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken L. & I. Co., 18 How. 280. Due process of law is process due according to the law of the land. This process in the States is regulated by the law of the State. Our power over that law is only to determine whether it is in conflict with the supreme law of the land,-that is to say, with the Constitution and laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof,-or with any treaty made under the authority of the United States. Art. 6 Const. Here the State court has decided that the proceeding below was in accordance with the law of the State; and we do not find that to be contrary to the Constitution, or any law or treaty of the United States.
The other questions presented by the assignment of errors and argued here cannot be considered, as the record does not show that they were brought to the attention of either of the courts below.
Judgment affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE FIELD and MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD dissented from the opinion and judgment of the court.

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# Walker v. Southern Railway Company

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United States Supreme Court
385 U.S. 196
Walker v. Southern Railway Company
Argued: Nov. 10, 1966. --- Decided: Dec 5, 1966
See 385 U.S. 1020, 87 S.Ct. 699.
J. Nat Hamrick, Rutherfordton, N.C., for petitioner.
Jerome Ackerman, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
PER CURIAM.

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# Walker v. Seeberger

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United States Supreme Court
149 U.S. 541
Walker v. Seeberger
Percy L. Shuman, H. E. Tremain, and A. H. Garland, for plaintiff in error.
Sol. Gen. Aldrich, for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Walker v. Smith

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United States Supreme Court
62 U.S. 579
Walker v. Smith
THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
It was argued by Mr. Chilton and Mr. Davidge for the appellant, and by Mr. Carlisle for the defendant, on a brief by Mr. Badger and Mr. Carlisle.
Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Westbrook v. Arizona

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United States Supreme Court
384 U.S. 150
Westbrook v. Arizona
Argued: May 2, 1966. ---
W. Edward Morgan, for petitioner.
Darrell F. Smith, Atty. Gen. of Arizona, and Paul G. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
PER CURIAM.

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# Western Air-Line Const Company v. McGillis

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United States Supreme Court
127 U.S. 776
Western Air-Line Const Company v. McGillis
John S.C.ooper, for the motion.
E. Walker, opposing.
MILLER, J.

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# Western Air-Line Const Company v. McGillis/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
127 U.S. 776
Western Air-Line Const Company v. McGillis
This is a motion to vacate what is called a supersedeas. The papers show that the writ was neither sued out nor served within 60 days after the rendition of the judgment which is the subject of the writ of error. It follows, as a matter of course, that the writ cannot operate as a supersedeas, and we know of no motion that is necessary or proper in this court on that subject. Writs of supersedeas do not issue unless it may become necessary from some peculiar circumstances. The statute declares that wen , within 60 days, the plaintiff sues out his writ of error, files it with the clerk of the proper court, and then gives a bond within a certain time mentioned by the statute, that the bond, if approved for that purpose by the judge who grants the citation and the writ of error, shal operate as a supersedeas. It is a matter of law whether it operates as a supersedeas. There is no evidence here of any proceeding to collect a debt which has been disregarded. At all events, there is no occasion for a supersedeas. The motion is denied.

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# Westbrook v. Arizona/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
384 U.S. 150
Westbrook v. Arizona
Argued: May 2, 1966. ---
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. Although petitioner received a hearing on the issue of his competence to stand trial, there appears to have been no hearing or inquiry into the issue of his competence to waive his constitutional right to the assistance of counsel and proceed, as he did, to conduct his own defense. 'The constitutional right of an accused to be represented by counsel invokes, of itself, the protection of a trial court, in which the accused-whose life or liberty is at stake-is without counsel. This protecting duty imposes the serious and weighty responsibility upon the trial judge of determining whether there is an intelligent and competent waiver by the accused.' Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 465, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023, 82 L.Ed. 1461; Carnley v. Cochran, 369 U.S. 506, 82 S.Ct. 884, 8 L.Ed.2d 70.
From an independent examination of the record, we conclude that the question whether this 'protecting duty' was fulfilled should be re-examined in light of our decision this Term in Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 86 S.Ct. 836. Accordingly, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Arizona is vacated and the case is remanded to that court for proceedings not inconsistent herewith. It is so ordered.
Judgment vacated and case remanded.

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# Western Air Lines v. Civil Aeronautics Board

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United States Supreme Court
347 U.S. 67
Western Air Lines v. Civil Aeronautics Board
Argued: Dec. 9, 10, 1953. --- Decided: Feb 1, 1954
See 347 U.S. 924, 74 S.Ct. 512.
Mr. Emory T. Nunneley, Jr., Washington, D.C., for C.A.B.
Mr. L. Welch Pogue, Washington, D.C., for Delta Air Lines.
Mr. Hugh W. Darling, Los Angeles, Cal., for Western Air Lines.
Mr. Daniel Friedman, for Summerfield et al.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Western Atlantic v. Hughes

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United States Supreme Court
278 U.S. 496
Western Atlantic v. Hughes
Argued: Jan. 18, 1929. --- Decided: Feb 18, 1929
Mr. Fitzgerald Hall, of Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner.
Mr. Reuben R. Arnold, or Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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