Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby shark was in turn gulped...
...Bradway Brown, supposedly murdered for revenge or blackmail, was killed by robbers who were traced when Detective Parker noted that similar robberies were following the main highways...
During hot debate in both Houses, such foes of the act as Winston Churchill charged that His Majesty's Government put "disgraceful pressure" upon India's princes, "amounting to blackmail in some cases," to force their agreement. Nevertheless the bill was steamrollered through by bland Secretary for India Sir Samuel Hoare, just before his promotion to be Foreign Secretary (TIME, June...
...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...
...polite gigolo cheating with the wife of the owner of the department store where the coatroom boy's fiancee is a filing clerk; the detective whose daughter is about to graduate from high school; the murderer's antagonist married to the usher who is trying to blackmail the coatroom boy. The neatness of Author Krasna's construction, the pace of Mitchell Leisen's direction and Richard Barthelmess' understanding of the role of a vengeful, stubbornly romantic thug, make Four Hours To Kill a first-rate specimen of its school...