Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl owns also, and often drives, a Rover, also a great favorite of Lady Alice. On more than one occasion Lord Dalkeith, summoned suddenly to London, has returned to discover that his Rover is missing. More often than not Lady Alice is the culprit...
Since Lawrence had identified George as the culprit, he spent an hour an a half yesterday with Canney and Lieutenant Inspector Joseph Shannon. After the conference the officers said that his evidence was still sufficient to hold George...
...sidelight on the situation, it was found upon investigation that Huppuch was unassisted in the capture of the thief, and that no patrolman entered the case until after the culprit was thoroughly subdued. While Huppuch was studying in his room, he noticed the door knob turn. Leaping from his chair, he tore open the door and found an individual looking for Moseley. He was recognized as a thief and captured by Huppuch, in the proccus dropping a pair of Callaway's seeks from his pockets...
...tell you I was a robber-not a rapist," the 23-year-old culprit shouted. "I haven't got justice." He looked down on his trembling old father, whom someone was holding up, and on his red-eyed sister, who had spent three days trying to get Governor Laffoon to pardon her brother. "I don't see that woman around here. Where is she at? Is Mrs. Johnson in the crowd?" Nine times De Boe called for Mrs. Johnson, the Iuka merchant's wife he was convicted of attacking when he robbed her husband's store...
...brought to bay, things were beginning to quiet down in Athens. Yet at high noon, yesterday, the men were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...