Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...
...Birmingham, Ala., Walter George's mother assured police that her fugitive son was innocent of the hit-&-run killing of an old Negro. "I hope to die if my son killed that Negro," cried Mrs. George. Two days later she died. Caught, Son Walter confessed his crime...
...that if the office of Mayor is to be kept honest and efficient the political backing of the incumbents must not be based on petty graft and favoritism in the back wards. If honest municipal administration does as much for the poor in housing and recreation and health and crime prevention, the poor are not tempted to give their vote to the man who brings a sack of coal in winter and a peddling license in summer. A possible alternative way to knock out the machines is to adopt the city-manager system which, well-organized, allows few chances...
...year-old Nephew Esmond Romilly, fighting with the Spanish Loyalists since last December, sped the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 19, beauteous fifth daughter of Baron Redesdale. When fuming Lord Redesdale moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed to "marry them if necessary...
Ricardo Cortez, in the role of defense attorney for the (innocent) young man accused of the crime, gives a skillful enough performance with adequate assistance from the supporting cast. A black cat, name unknown, also figures in the events...