Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Cosgrave: "This crime has not been committed by private individuals against Kevin O'Higgins. It was the fruit of a steady persistent attack against the State and its fundamental institutions. On the head of those who have devoted themselves to that attack lies the blood guilt...
...ASTOUNDING CRIME ON TORRINGTON ROAD?William Gillette?Harper...
...claimed that this gang murdered the South Braintree (Mass.) paymaster and guard for whose deaths Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti are sentenced to die. He has sworn that neither Mr. Sacco nor Mr. Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with the Sacco-Vanzetti case has procured him a series of respites, though there is no question ultimately as to his death...
Last week William Randolph Hearst, titular head of many a potent U. S. newspaper, discussed in Editor & Publisher the ethics of crime reporting. After estimating that "the New York Times, which is a very thorough paper, printed more words on the Snyder trial than any other newspaper in New York," Mr. Hearst entered upon a comparison between the newspaper and the author: "There are various elements of interest in the fiction stories which appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with...
...know," admitted Mr. Hearst, "what proportion of the circulation of a newspaper may be attributed to the publication of crime news. . . ." Mr. Hearst was recently elected honorary president of the American Crime Study Commission, an organization of which Bradford Merrill, general manager of the Hearst newspapers, is secretary. Addressing the Commission, Mr. Hearst said that the U. S. penal system is "built upon the sand, founded upon the basis of force and violence instead of on the basis of Christian care of our fellow...