Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withhold its knowledge of the killing, that is, all but the inordinately chauvinitsic grandfather, relic of Bull Run, who refuses to be intimidated by a "bunch of yellow-bellied foreigners". At the climax the child is rescued, and the Civil War veteran gives the testimony that sends the killer to the chair...
...brain is paralyzed in the electric chair Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of them he is dead. The unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster...
...Killer Powers was rushed for safety from the city to the county jail while police began to investigate the activities of Luella Struthers, a wife whom he had not killed, who still lived with him and who had paid for construction of the garage. They learned she had been divorced by a man acquitted of murder in 1903, had met Powers through a marriage agency. They sought to connect her with a check forged on Mrs. Eicher's account and with a letter written to relatives of Mrs. Lemke. Police elsewhere, investigating Powers' courtships, learned he had been...
...police also learned that a Detroit widow, mother of three, had found a husband through the American Friendship Society, had been murdered by him just before he committed suicide. While investigation of the "society" was being pressed, unexpected aid came to Killer Powers. One Barratt O'Hara, a Chicago criminal attorney, flew to Clarksburg and aroused the ire of the townspeople by announcing he would defend the prisoner. He refused to tell who had sent him. Clarksburg authorities, fearing an insanity plea, imported Alienist Edward Everett Mayer from the University of Pittsburgh, had him examine the prisoner...
Vexed members of the National Association of Audubon Societies hurled no sticks and stones but many a name at their President Thomas Gilbert Pearson last November (TIME, Nov. 3). They called him a killer, a caterer to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies, a steam roller. The names hurt President Pearson. After being reelected a director of the association, he appointed a committee to purge him of the bad names. On the committee were President Chauncy J. Hamlin of the Buffalo Museum of Science, Director Thomas Barbour of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, President Alexander Grant Ruthven...