Word: cruger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, several truckloads of mouldy, bullet-riddled, knife-slashed clothing, taken from victims of criminal violence in the past 20 years, were hauled off for incineration from the Criminal Courts Building. Present were the bloodstained garments of Stanford White (Thaw victim) ; of Ruth Cruger; of Herman Rosenthal (Becker case) ; of Barnett Baff (poultry king shot down Thanksgiving eve, 1914) ; of five-year-old Giuseppe Varotta (drowned by kidnappers). Had the City of New York cared to do so, it could doubtless have sold these garments to morbid curiosity seekers, netted several hundreds of dollars...