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...evening three Lutheran pastors in white ties and black frock coats arrived. They were taken to the cell of Germany's most dangerous criminal, mild-mannered, flutter-fingered Peter Kuerten, "the Diisseldorf Fiend" (TIME...
...Black Mountain woods; last fortnight, a Mrs. W. B. ("Dolly") Bibbens slashed and garroted to death in her city apartment; and last week a telephone operator was stabbed eleven times, fatally, near the Boy Scouts' headquarters. Since none had been criminally attacked, police searched for a female "fiend...
...read your magazine every week. I am a business woman of mature years and yesterday I read an article "Atrocity" on p. 40, April 20. I wish you would print the facts of the fiend being found and properly punished, which in my estimation deserves the same treatment he gave the poor dog. I might add that I could do the punishing myself, I believe, and not feel a qualm at his suffering. As you can understand I am fond of dogs, have seen so much of their intelligence and this treatment of a dog, no matter what kind...
...when Cincinnati's fiend, who hung a dog over a bonfire, is apprehended and punished, TIME will tell.-ED. Whale Margarine Sirs...
...Democratic presidential nomination in 1856. He viewed his slavery debates with Lincoln in 1858 as a mere incident to winning re-election to the Senate. For Lincoln they were a major opportunity to attract public notice and favor. Contrasted with Lincoln, Douglas is commonly depicted as the arch fiend of slavery. As a matter of fact he was not. He tried to take a middle course on the issue, to weasel on it just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because...