Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, surgeons took an 8½-in. table fork from the stomach of Margaret Santell, 19. In Los Angeles, doctors fed cotton & spinach to Raymond Wilkinson, 5, to pad a small open pocket knife working slowly down through his intestinal tract...
...shoulders of the men who break the laws, and that is where it belongs. . . . It is not the Church that has failed, but the man who did the crime." Other reasons adduced by Chaplain McCaffrey for Catholics being in prison: many are of races "addicted to the use of knife and pistol"; many are from the slums. Also, "a Catholic has more temptations because of the strict moral code that his church holds him to, and especially in our complicated social structure where his economic conditions throw him into conflict with the laws protecting property...
Through three rather long acts interest is maintained by shifting the object of attention subtly and effectively. First the persecutor's alibi depends upon a green chartreuse bottle, then an overcoat button, and finally upon establishing the presence of the same blood on a pair of gloves and a knife. Suspense rises to a pitch at the end of the first scene in act three; the last two scenes are lamentably weak perhaps because of their brevity. The author has injected several squibs in the Shavian manner, such as "today women are either supermen or twittering neurasthenics," which neither pass...
Last week the Soviet State began the job of avenging Martyrs Pavel & Fedor. Their murderers were rounded up, herded into court and a typical Soviet "propaganda trial" began. Presumably several of the knife-handy villagers will be sentenced to "the supreme measure of social defense": Death by shooting. Orators all over Russia will point the moral, urge good children to continue to peach and if necessary die for Communism, sure that they will be avenged...
...Detroit, Negro Robert Harris, member of the Order of Islam (religious society), was arraigned on a first degree murder charge of killing Negro James J. Smith with a knife and automobile axle. Said he: "I killed this man with the crucifixion, because it was crucifixion time. I said 'Ali-ker-slump,' and he fell dead...