Word: assassins
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Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, dauntless old "Lion of Japan," has simply not recovered sufficiently from the assassin's wound he received last year (TIME, Nov. 17). Failing in strength, the grand old statesman resigned, both as Prime Minister and as Leader of the Minseito (Liberal Party...
...quite so well known is the fact that Alfonso XIII is a fatalist with a great deal of personal courage and a macabre sense of humor. His pride is his private collection of objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet...
...steep steps of the Tribune the oldest pair of legs in the chamber carried Deputy Maurice Sibille to read the official eulogy. Would it pass, or not? The Chamber is notoriously fickle. It refused to cheer Clemenceau on his first appearance after a would-be assassin had wounded him at the time of the peace conference.† But "Tiger" Clémenceau was the antithesis of "Papa" Joffre. The Marshal was in France unquestionably the best beloved hero of the entire War. Last week would even a single deputy refuse to join in laying a harmless wreath of words upon...
...newshawks and photographers assembled in a bare room at the call of Chief Investigator Pat Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade...