Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the prosecutor in Salisbury County police court last week: "It may take 1,000 years for Stonehenge to regain its old weathered appearance." Said the court: $5 fine for each culprit, costs of trial and repairs, total $95. Said the commander at Larkhill, keeping a straight face: official reprimand...
Last week the sleuths caught a culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...
Theodore M. Olesen, Jr., confessed culprit in the Peabody Museum looting, will be indicted by the University today before the Middlesex County Grand Jury...
...interrupted?" shouted the Mayor. A policeman shouldering through the crowd to find the culprit tapped the elephantine shoulder of Columnist Heywood Broun, Guild President, who denied his guilt. But the Mayor noticed nothing. He was launched on his peroration. Thus last week, was the C., I. O. exorcised from Jersey City...
...origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When...