Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local larceny to too much for the Harvard Co-operative Society. Already taped for $75,000 in two recent thefts and alarmed by robberies of 13 Cambridge churches last week, the coop yesterday discontinued its check cashing service once and for all. However, police last night termed the crime situation "nothing unusual...
...Citizens of St. Louis were beginning to worry over having the lowest-paid major police force in the nation. Half of their 1,750 disgusted cops were in debt, others were quitting. As the Missouri State Legislature dragged its feet on a pay-raise bill, the crime, rate rose 58% over 1947. Said one $220-a-month patrolman's son: "I don't wanta be a cop; I wanta be a gangster. They make more money...
...Crown contended that the steward had strangled the girl and had disposed of the body to hide his crime...
...Many whodunit addicts think that a suspect cannot be held for murder unless there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...
...World War I, when the Herald temporarily turned into a weekly, its contributors included George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Bennett. Later H.G. Wells covered politics, and Edgar Wallace, crime. (Once, when Contributor G. K. Chesterton was searching for the editor's office, an employee observed: "You seem to have lost your way." Beamed Chesterton: "We have all lost...