Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigator Roche thought Lynch had been kidnapped by the gang formerly headed by Fred ("Killer") Burke of St. Louis, where the kidnapping business is so highly developed that socialites leave their expensive cars in their garages and go to parties in inconspicuous small cars. Kidnapped this year in St. Louis were strapping Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr. (TIME, May 11) and Adolphus Busch Orthwein. 13, grandson of President August A. Busch of Anheuser-Busch. Inc. (TIME, Jan. 12). Kidnapped near Chicago four months ago was a gambler named James Hackett, whose seizure Investigator Roche blamed on the Burke gang. Hackett...
That night 100 sheriff's deputies and many a private citizen combed the nearby woods for the killer, but he had fled into the hills, vanished. Terrified, innocent Negroes trembled behind the thin walls of their clapboard cabins. The misdirected white man's fury which they feared was not long in arriving. Eleven suspects were jailed. They were comparatively lucky. At Irondale, 10 mi. from Birmingham, two whites shot two blacks from the top of a passing box car. One Negro died. In Birmingham, a Negro was dragged out of his home by two whites, led two blocks...
...Killer Kuerten was sentenced to death nine times for a fiendish series of bloodlust killings. Dusseldorf children, who had been going to school in vans guarded by armed policemen, played in the streets again. Peter Kuerten confessed all his crimes, muttered that when his head throbbed he just had to kill...
...doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...
...Nice, as everyone had expected, a jury of seven bachelors and five husbands last week acquitted deep-dimpled, winsome Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger, 26, self-confessed killer of her rich, jealous, 54-year-old U. S. husband (TIME, March 23). In a skin-tight black dress, she sobbed into a pitifully small white handkerchief edged with black, told the jurymen she shot in self defense, told them she shot in total darkness after he, with jealous, groping hands had reached to wring her neck...