Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staring into a mirror of their misery, Germans gazed at their newspapers, read of an appalling crime. Two boys, one 16 years old, the other 14, entered their parents' bedroom where they were sleeping with their two small daughters. The 14-year-old boy hit each of them on the head with a hammer; the older boy killed each with a hatchet. This was in the village of Weiher, near Kulmbach, Bavaria...
Over night, the trial became a cause celebre. Newspapers devoted many long columns of what they almost unanimously called a crime de charité. Newsboys ran madly along the boulevards bawling out last-minute news of the proceedings. The kiosks were besieged by excited crouds loudly demanding the latest edition of the Intransigeant or some other afternoon newspaper. In the hot cafés, where garcons scurried hither and thither with the large trays groaning under the weight of amer-picons, bocks and grogs americains, men discussed the trial in an undertone, sad, strained expressions on their faces...
...Listerine" is the well known "One out of every five" advertisement which shakes its bony finger at all who venture forth from the academic confines of the Yard; yets its boaring seems to have been quite missed in the editorial entitled "Murder by Statistics," which appeared in Wednesday's Crime. The thesis of this editorial, which has been several times sponsored by Boston and other papers upon hearing of the system of marking under which the percentage of men altaining the various grades is predetermined is that such predestination is both "unfair" and "unjust." They seem to view the "distribution...
...average viewpoint of the criminal is, or used to be, that there is no such thing as justice in the world", said Thomas Mott Osborne '84, noted prison reformer, in the course of a lecture last evening at Phillips Brooks House on "Crime and Criminals...
...only method which will stop crime consists of these three principles, certainty of arrest, promptness of trial, and a prison system which reforms the criminal. The method now in use in various prisons, to create such a prison system, was suggested originally by a criminal himself. It is the Mutual Welfare League...