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Throughout the month preceding Bruno Richard Hauptmann's electrocution, Carter had relentlessly goaded New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman and his henchmen for playing political football with the life of the condemned man. Last week Boake Carter summed up his opinion of such doings by declaring in...
Bing Crosby stows away on a liner out of sympathy for Ida Lupino, a girl he meets in a night club, who has been kidnapped by gangsters hired by Arthur Treacher to take her back to England where she is supposed to marry someone. G-men arrest a bishop because...
Biggest news of its day was the world's first legal electrocution, at Auburn, N. Y. in 1890. To that event the New York World devoted whole pages, with details of the apparatus and its effect on the victim, who, through error, was literally fried alive.
Last week newspaper editors had in their hands not one electrocution picture but six, showing progressive stages in the execution of Gerald Thompson, Peoria, Ill. raper and girl-killer in Joliet State Penitentiary, Illinois (TIME, Aug. 12). With one exception, every paper in New York found some reason not to...
For the Herald & Examiner, the pictures represented a notable scoop. City Editor John Dienhart had long had a standing order from hard-boiled Managing Editor Victor Watson for an electrocution picture. To the execution of Murderer Thompson he sent tall, personable Cameraman William Vandivert, with a candid camera concealed in...