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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MASSACRE"--University | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Warner Says Stronger Methods of Prosecution Would Avoid Repetition of Millen Case Error | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

...queerest person I have ever met." Three years ago Gene Howe performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing a bomb in their automobile, went to the News-Globe office and asked Editor Howe to find the real culprit. With the aid of the Kansas City Star's crack Crime Reporter A. B. MacDonald, Editor Howe found that the real culprit was A. D. Payne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Potato Sage | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...SULU SEA MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). Captain North of the Army Intelligence perspires freely while solving murder in a tropical outpost. Pearls, meteorology and domestic polyangle show the clues to the culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...every case where the crime was committed to meet a pressing need I propose to inquire whether I cannot, by quashing legal proceedings or granting a pardon, make it possible for the culprit to take part once more, with his head high, in the battle against economic misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sub-Dictator | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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