Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best place for a reporter to have covered the Stoll kidnapping would have been the press room of the Department of Justice, 600 mi. from the scene of the crime. Even information from one field man to another is cleared through the central Washington office. The moment Mrs. Stoll was released, the complete, authoritative story on the kidnapping went out from Washington. Attorney General Cummings took on last August as his special assistant one of the ablest and most reliable of Washington correspondents, Henry Suydam, long with the Brooklyn Eagle...
...loyal best to alibi her stolid husband for the night of March 1, 1932. She was not very successful. More promising was the testimony of a construction boss on a Manhattan apartment building who said Hauptmann was working for him until 5 p. m. on the fatal day. The crime took place 60 mi. away at Hopewell, N. J. not later than 8:30 p. m. But when other evidence tended to show that Hauptmann did not start work there until March 21, the court refused to stay the extradition longer and four carloads of New Jersey troopers swept Bruno...
...Italian police detained him at Turin, refused to let him be quizzed by agents of the French Sûreté Nationale who loudly protested to High Heaven and Benito Mussolini. Obviously Il Duce cannot take the chance of a French frame-up to plant responsibility for the crime in Italy or her protege Hungary.. Last week there was distinct danger that on this issue Jugoslavia might prefer charges before the League. A bit too precipitously Premier General Julius Gömbös of Hungary flared "We are innocent! We can prove...
...Since it was only a Chinaman we do not think our crime was murder," pleaded Defendant Romero last week. "It was not even homicide," cried Defendant Cavada. "Only a Chinaman...
...affianced couple are expecting a child, exhibits a tiny sweater. The actress shudders eloquently. Hipper's Holiday (by John Crump; Marian T. Carter, producer) is an amateur effort to make a farce of an amateur kidnapping. A cowardly young hobo named Jim Hipper (Burgess Meredith) perpetrates the crime, but his victim is a tougher and slicker criminal than he. In the process of trying to get ransom without calling in the police, the kidnappee gets half a dozen characters and a hopelessly complicated situation on the stage by the end of Act II. When the hobo begins shooting...