Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uncanny genius of a Sherlock Holmes, but he combines it with the calm, every-day matter-of-factness of the average American business executive. As organizer of one of the greatest detective bureaus of the world, he has probably contributed more to the science of detecting crime than anyone living; but it is for his achievements single-handed in his pooneer days that he is most famous. Mr. Burns has crowded into the sixty-two years of his life enough sheer adventure to satisfy the authors of twenty mystery-thrillers. His name is one to conjure with all over...
...House was not legal, and hence he had no right to keep liquor there. The courts will decide the matter in due time and find Kearn guilty or not guilty. The guests at the banquet in the same hotel the night of the raid was neither guilty of any crime nor charged with any crime...
Again the beauties of the grand humanitarian system of protecting and encouraging crime are manifested to a grateful public. The police were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have...
...arrested for the same offense in 1921 and put on probation. Rearrested the same year, he was released on bail. Thus he has been twice stimulated to go on with his virtue. Parole, suspended sentence, probation, bail, easy discharge, all the bounties, so to speak, for the commission of crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this quick-forgetting community still remembers Hoey, the paroled convict from Sing Sing...
...believe", said Count Tolstoy, "that war is the greatest evil of man-kind, I believe that war is a crime, and I believe that evil will never bring any good results. Revolution being the child of the war had to turn into evil. It turned into Bolshevism, which means civil war and destruction". There are two kinds of Bolshevists, Count Tolstoy, continued, the leaders and the crowd. Of the leaders, he said: "Some of them may be honest people, but if they are, they are dreamers and fanatics--the kind of fanatics that are on the verge of insanity...