Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrested, Hume survived three juries at the Old Bailey-the first was dismissed when the judge fell ill, the second could not agree, the third found him not guilty. Finally, for the crime of illegally disposing of Setty's body, Hume pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder, and in 1950 was sentenced to twelve years in prison...
Hefty Barmaid. Freed last spring for good behavior, Hume took bold advantage of the fact that he could not be tried again for the same crime. To the tabloid Sunday Pictorial he brazenly sold for about $10,000 his account of how he murdered Setty (TIME, June 16). He became a freehanded spender in the shadier bars of London's West End, and as before, women proved susceptible to his curly black hair and his blue-eyed, open countenance. A hefty Mayfair barmaid lost her $800 savings to Hume but still loves him; a pretty air hostess at London...
...Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated the crime, seriously wounded a British bank manager, but got away with only $560. One of the employees picked out Hume's picture at Scotland Yard, and Hume became Scotland Yard's most wanted criminal...
...turn-of-the-century London waxworks, Redhead casts Gwen as Essie Whimple, a mouse-humble cockney-accented taxidermist of crime sensations. When the wax cools on her tableau of a purple-scarf murder before the clues do, and the strangler begins stalking her, poor Essie hides out as a showgirl with a neighboring theatrical troupe. For Essie, a spinster of 29, whose lips have never touched liquor, cigarettes or men, the greatest thrill is to be close to the show's American strong man (Richard Kiley). The problem: who will get whose man first-Scotland Yard or Essie Whimple...
None of them has anything in particular against old Francisco Guarner. The book skillfully makes it plain that the crime is planned only because of a variety of character flaws that each youngster more or less recognizes in himself. They are not even on the level with one another. When they play poker to see who will do the actual shooting, the cards are stacked by drunken Eduardo and tough-talking little Luis so that David, the kindest and weakest of the bunch, has to do the dirty work. The deed-getaway car and all-is planned coldly by Agustin...