Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a strange trial at Benton, Ill., last week. Three men- Charles Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, gangsters all-were on trial for murder. The state claimed that they had paid Harry Thomasson, 19, and Elmo Thomasson, 17, $50 apiece to kill Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Ill., last winter (TIME, Feb. 21). The jury was chosen, the prosecution made its case, it was time for the defense to offer its testimony. But, one after the other, attorneys for Messrs. Birger, Newman and Hyland announced that their clients would not testify. Neither did they offer any other...
Although this view of the purity of Jesse James's motives has been widely accepted, his actions included the killing of a very large number of persons, chiefly sheriffs, and on one authentic occasion he and four companions attacked 60 Union soldiers and managed to kill 52. He made almost a habit of giving poor farmers money to pay off their mortgages, but usually recovered the sum from the holder of the mortgage by violent means...
Certain detectives sent to "take Jesse James dead or alive" adopted the questionable expedient of tossing a bomb into his house which killed his youngest brother and tore off the arm of his mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward...
...merciless person; hundreds of persons have fled for their very lives, to this coun- try, because of the fear with which they held O'Higgins. I do not think there will be any political effect but I do think that sheer fear caused a group to determine to kill him as the only means of safety...
Doorman John Healy comes to work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...