Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thief John Dillinger, on whose grave near Indianapolis last week appeared a spray of greens inscribed "Merry Christmas, Old Pal," was the No. 1 catch of a New Deal's crime drive which in one year landed every major public enemy save one in jail or grave, solved seven out of eleven kidnappings, convicted three kidnappers...
...they sat there--seven feet apart--in their rickety pine chairs while the State of New Jersey began grinding away at the task of selecting a jury to try Hauptmann for the crime that stunned civilization...
...lynching at Shelbyville, Tennessee, presents an unusually clear picture of the race hatred that still inflames the South. The charge against the intended negro victim was the usual one of rape. No evidence pointed to E.K. Harris, but he was black and handy and was therefore charged with the crime. Subsequent medical examination of the fourteen-year old girl who had aroused the uproar disclosed the fact that she actually had suffered nothing but a few black-and-blue marks. Nevertheless, the mob of white farmers was so infuriated that, failing to capture Harris, it burned down...
...PERFECT ALIBI-C. St. John Sprigg -Crime Club ($2). All suspects have alibis when the armament king is murdered. Best are those of killer and victim, which are pierced when a smart young reporter helps the police. Jekyll-and-Hyde motif...
JOURNEY DOWNSTAIRS-R. Philmore- Crime Club ($2). Domestic murder at an English house party. Character study by the investigator quietly clears the crime...