Word: confessionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Getting Confessions. Seven years ago, someone accused Stevedore Jean Deshays of killing an old man, beating his wife, and robbing them of $50. Police briskly beat a confession out of Deshays, and he was sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Last year police discovered that three other men had...
Newspapers angrily recalled other cases of police brutality. One woman, acquitted last month of poisoning her lover's wife, had been held illegally by police for three days while they kicked her, pulled her hair, and insulted her in an effort to get a confession. In 1948 a sanitarium...
At week's end, disturbed by "malicious speculation" abroad about the monarchy, Dictator Franco issued an interview in the Falangist Arriba, reassuring his Fascist supporters that in thinking about restoration of the monarchy he does not have in mind a "liberal or parliamentary" monarchy, but one which will "incarnate...
The orderly work of the cops and courts unquestionably relieved the tensions that had built up during the most tragic fortnight in Panama's history. Cecilia Remón, Chichi's widow, took to the radio to ask the people to give the government of new President Ricardo...
Amid all the hustle, some Panamanians wondered about Miró's confession that he machine-gunned Remón with Guizado's knowledge so that Guizado could appoint Miró to a high and profitable job. Was that the whole story? Did it somehow seem too simple? Two...