Word: degreees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing . . . is murder in the first degree. -U. S. Criminal Code, Sect. 273.
Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said...
Fortnight ago Willard Huntingdon Wright, more famed as "S. S. Van Dine," detective story writer, gave up a murder case because it was outside his jurisdiction as Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief...
Not TiME-readers but TIME was, to some degree, gullibility-guilty. Amazing progress_ continues to be made in blood transfusions; for example, young children have had new blood entirely substituted for their own. ? ED.
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