Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On the heels of the Bischoff murder came threatening letters to Referee Samuel Seabury, prime mover in the judiciary inquiry. Three members of his staff and other prospective witnesses were also threatened. Referee Seabury decided to conduct his own investigation of the killing when Counsel Cooper received a communication written...
There was only one noteworthy murder in Chicago last week. Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age...
Rango (Paramount). Once more a good job has been done with jungle life. This time the scene is Sumatra and the photography by Ernest Schoedsack, who helped to make Chang. Though it is nontalking except for occasional voices explaining the action, Rango is not a travelog but has a proper...
Theories as to the motive for killing Potter were varied. One said he had been "put on the spot" by racketeers. Another called attention to the fact that one Liston Schooley, like Potter a city official ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper...
Henry Kitchell Webster is one of the minority of U. S. mystery writers who tells a wild yarn so plainly and well you keep forgetting its improbabilities. Though Webster has written mystery stories without a single killing, if you take murders for insomnia The Man with the Scarred Hand should...