Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than an hour rambled the gentle oldster who, having seen much misery and evil in his lifetime as country doctor and health officer, had conceived a Plan to end it all. His Plan would banish crime "because almost all crime comes from, poverty." It would banish bootleggers because it would entail government licensing of all business. In six months, for only $9,600,000,000, it would bring the real relief and recovery which the U. S. had not obtained by spending "$20,000,000,000 on charity, crime and government alphabetical soup relief" in the past six months...
...when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh premises the night of the crime. For months newspapers had trumpeted the fact that lumber in the ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann had once worked...
Night before, in another of his series of broadcasts about his side of the case, Counsel Reilly had declared: "The defense will establish that Hauptmann had nothing to do with the crime and that it was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself, but not by any member of the family. We will show that the kidnapping was planned and executed by a gang of five persons. . . . Furthermore, the defense will prove that the child was carried from its nursery down the stairs of the house and out of a door of the house, rather than down the ladder. ... I have...
Thereupon, Counsel Reilly began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
...with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned on the gas to make the crime seem suicide...