Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After investigation by Yard Police, Colonel Apted was able to announce last night that the culprit was known and he did not believe that such an incident would happen again...
...University hierarchy is combing the woods for the snatch artist who broke into the door before it was fixed. Microscopic work on the picture reveal that both the coat and sweater that are visible were purchased in a Southern city, probably Atlanta, Georgia, and it is claimed that the culprit is already known and can save himself several years if he will give himself up quietly...
...were arrested by State Police and later released for sending a fake bomb to Governor Curley. The two taken into custody were Coorge M. Davis '39, Weld 28, who lives in Buffalo, New York, and Leonard Farmer, Weld 37, who lives in Amherst, Farmer was found to be the culprit, but no action was taken after he signed a statement admitting guilt in the matter. The fake bomb was sent Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock from Harvard square. Davis' name was signed to the package...
...early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing...
Ralegh went back to England to take his medicine which James was ready to give. The Spanish ambassador was howling for Ralegh's blood, insisted on James's handing the culprit over that he might be publicly hanged in Spain. James would have done that, too, if public opinion had let him. Instead he put Ralegh through the farce of another trial, and when Ralegh's brilliant self-defense made the prosecution look silly, had him condemned on the old charge of treason-from which he had been reprieved but never technically pardoned...