Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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You stated in your article that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is...
Added attraction at the execution of 22-year-old Rainey Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to...
Night before the execution, Owensboro was host to the greatest crowd in its history. Cars poured in from neighboring counties, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson'...
The end of the 1935-36 season finds these huge holdings reduced to approximately 3,500,000 bales. . . . Not having been slow to criticize Government entrance into the cotton market, it is a pleasure now to commend the wisdom of decision and the skill of execution in liquidation of Government...
Soon more than 30 rescue ships dispatched by anxious governments to take their nationals off the frying pan of Spain were in its harbors. Before the Oklahoma could reach San Sebastian, the French destroyer l'Indomptable and the British destroyer Verity had already arrived, hustled all foreigners away who...