Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise of the Cardinals to fame, with the betting odds against them, many people would be only too glad to see them lose, so that the picture is practically littered up with suspects. True to all mystery stories, the most innocent appearing and least suspected is the culprit, who finally goes mad, having perpetrated his dastardly deeds with practically unlimited resources, which include a bomb in the form of a pocket watch, a poisoned mustard jar exchanged for the genuine by a hairy hand under cover of the excitement caused by a firecracker (mind you, in the end, only...
...Yard Police apprehended a student in the act of pleading with a freshman for his laundry contract. The man was put out of the dormitory and Colonel Apted issued a warning to all concerned that the University's rule against canvassing the dormitories would be upheld. Neither the culprit nor Apted and anything to say about the affair but the ultimatum was issued. Solicitors beware...
Philbrick was caught in the act of dropping bundles of the pamphlets down the blowers by one of the German sailors on watch, who called a Marine guard to take charge of the matter. The Marine guard handed the culprit over to the commandant of the Navy Yard but this official declared that the affair was outside his jurisdiction and referred him to the Federal Marshal...
...reservation. When he arrives there finding his father dying, unattended by the government doctor, and discovering the graft-ridden administration makes him burn for revenge, and when his sister is raped by the funeral director during his father's burial service, he sets out for revenge, lassos the culprit in his spending roadster, and drags him along the road behind...
...professor of Penal Legislation and Administration, in an interview with the CRIMSON. "The erroneous conviction of the two taxi drivers for the killing will influence all murder trials for the next decade. The attorney for the defense will stand before the jury and say, 'Gentlemen, I hope the real culprit confesses before you convict this innocent man of murder.' Immediately the jury will think of the grave mistake in the Millen case, and the chances for conviction will be considerably lessened...