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Green with terror the culprit wailed: "I acted in good faith! I ordered all the women in my cooperative to cut off their hair and I sold it at a good price and I turned over every kopeck to the Government. That was the only way I could show a profit! Could I help it if the women were angry...
...weeks ago one young culprit, Austin Mills, stabbed a fellow prisoner. Raymond Brown, with a pitchfork. Brown died. His mother sued the State for $50.000. Immediately three investigation committees were set to work. Chief witness for the complainants was Farm Superintendent Peck. Said...
Married. John Thomas Scopes, 29, Venezuela Gulf Oil Co. geologist, famed culprit in the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial (TIME, May 18, 1925 et seq.); and Mildred Walker, fellow employe; at Maracaibo, Venezuela...
Scotland Yard fails to prevent a murder, even though the killer ballyhoos his deed in advance. Furthermore the only hint as to the culprit's identity is given by Author Bush, smart manufacturer of alibis, in his prologue. The book was selected by the Crime Club jury for September...
...hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...