Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket, the blood temperature of which was record...
...that of other Governors by granting to a chair-condemned murderer a 30-day reprieve for an unusual reason. Governor O'Daniel, reprieved Negro Murderer Winzell Williams, who killed a 63-year-old white dairyman, because, said the Governor, few punishments could be worse than "to see certain death staring you in the face day & night for 30 days." When Texans protested his cruelty, Governor O'Daniel explained he sought to arouse sentiment against capital punishment...
...When Ruby Laffoon was Governor of Kentucky in 1934, he stayed the execution of Murderer Sylvester Warner, 24, to study his case. Fourteen months passed, "Happy" Chandler succeeded Ruby Laffoon. Years passed, 25 other prisoners marched to their doom, and still Murderer Warner, forgotten, waited in the death house. Last week Governor Chandler got around to a decision, said Warner must die this week as planned five years...
...Fort Madison, Iowa, 23 members of the Iowa Legislature last week slept one night in cells of Iowa State Penitentiary, four of them in death row, for the "thrill...
Walter Huston, as peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant in Knickerbocker Holiday, is a big acting hit on Broadway. One day this week, the 267th anniversary of Stuyvesant's death, Huston, in full costume, stumped up the chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie (where Stuyvesant is buried), reviewed the story of "his" life. "When I came to Nieuw Amsterdam," he said, "it was a filthy little village of 700 inhabitants, crowded into scarcely 100 flimsy shacks. . . . The rum shops were better attended than the churches...