Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling that the real key to the mystery is missing. In other words, what preceded the entrance of Hauptmann into the Lindbergh house? By what conspiracy of chance or confederacy was he able to accomplish his purpose so easily? When Hauptmann has paid the extreme penalty for this crime, the final possibility for new light on the mystery will probably have ended...
That thought had also occurred to Senator William Edgar Borah whose first Government job was as a criminal prosecutor. Convinced that the crime was "only partly cleared up," he told Washington newshawks: "I have always believed that this crime was consummated through someone in the house cooperating with someone outside the house. ... I have strong convictions about the matter...
...plot and got him the germs from the All-India Institute of Health and the Bombay Municipal Hospital (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week at Calcutta the trial of the quartet for murder came to its end. The prosecutor called the case ' unparalleled in the annals of crime in India in its enormity and well-planned scientific design . . . diabolical ingenuity.' Benayendra Pandey and Dr. Taranath Bayttachra were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy. Barked the judge: "The murder is too heinous to warrant clemency...
Scarcely a day went by at Flemington without both the prosecution and the defense being pestered by the mentally infirm. Hag after hag claimed she knew the secret of how the kidnaper perpetrated his crime. Copies of the ransom notes were made to substantiate each individual's "confession." Yet what right have picnic parties to break up solemn proceedings? Why should the insane get away with contempt of court? Executions are officially witnessed, yet barred to the public. Why should murder trials be open to the public--when the "public" which swarms to the kill is mainly lunatics and monomaniacs...
Herndon was convicted a few years ago for violating an obsolete statute of the post-Civil War period. His only crime was the possession of literature advocating the acquittal of the Scottsboro prisoners. He is now touring the country in an effort to raise funds for the appeal of his case before the Supreme Court. Fifteen thousand dollars bail has been provided for him by the International Labor Defense, pending his trial...