Word: coachman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brass bed, his own special table, that huge sums had been refused for the Wendel property so as to insure Tobey a place to run in.) Was it true that he was to be shot, as were the Wendel horses (said legend) when the old family coachman died in 1929? Was it true that Manhattan's Flower Hospital was to receive some $17,000,000 from Miss Wendel's estate because a doctor there had once mended the broken leg of a previous Tobey Wendel...
...that door been opened. Only the side door is used. The house, which cost $5,000 to build, is assessed today at $2,000,000. There was a time when Miss Ella used to venture forth to ride in the family carriage or to exercise her dogs, but the coachman, the horses, the dogs are all dead...
About the crimes of Düsseldorf's coachman there was nothing remarkable, except that for 16 months their author invariably escaped. His weapon was a common penknife. Walking up to a woman in some secluded spot he would address her courteously, watch his chance to seize her with a firm, stifling grip. In a nearby shelter of some sort?always carefully chosen? Coachman Kuerten would then deal with his victim, usually ending by hacking her lifeless body into an almost unrecognizable state with his penknife...
Opponents of the famed criminological thesis which says "It is insane to commit murder, therefore every murderer is insane, therefore no murderer should be punished," observed last week that in Germany this syllogism seems to have badly broken down. Triumphantly they pointed out that Coachman Kuerten, Harrman and Angerstein all lived orderly lives apart from their crimes, showed no other symptoms of insanity, seemed to be actuated as killers by what one detective last week called "sane malice...
...That Coachman Kuerten was caught resulted from his softheartedness in not actually killing some nine women whom he attacked, merely pricking and slashing them lightly with his penknife and letting them go. One such victim recognized and later denounced him to the completely baffled police. His wife sobbed last week: "I don't understand. I can't believe it! Peter was always so kind and gentle...