Word: killers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers, a St. Louis "heavy man" (hired gang killer), had arrived in Chicago in July 1929. By long secret sleuthing Chief Roche had linked him with the Lingle killing, was convinced he was the actual murderer long before putting eyes on him. Under the alias of Bader, Brothers was living in retirement in a middle-class apartment house. In the same building, just across the hall from "Bader's" apartment, lived a Miss Rose Huebsch whom Roche knew. After an attempt to capture Brothers on a railroad train had failed, Chief Roche enlisted Miss Huebsch...
...warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become too enthusiastic, turn the ceremony into a free-for-all. Head-taking, like scalping among American Indians, adds war-glory to the individual warrior...
...home, execution in a shambled cellar. Ehrberg was killed suddenly by a German shell, though Tanya, the Professor's granddaughter, loved him. Stolnikov came back from his battery with no arms and no legs, and lived as long as he could bear it. Astafiev had to bully his drunken killer before he could get the death he wished...
...past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents of the coal teamsters union (nonA...
...Tiger Von Berlin (UFA). Disstinctly the most competent European talkie presented in the U. S. to date, Der Tiger Von Berlin is a murder mystery with German dialog and a German cast. It concerns the efforts of the Berlin police to get hold of a killer, known as the Tiger, who shoots his victims through the forehead before robbing them. Suspense gathers force by concentration; it is not distributed loosely among many characters, but narrowed quickly to two and still so deftly juggled that the ending is a surprise. There are only two murders in the course of the action...