Word: morelli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madeiros, respited along with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti, is to be electrocuted for the murder, in November, 1924, of a bank cashier. He was a member of a bandit group known as the Morelli gang, has claimed that this gang murdered the South Braintree (Mass.) paymaster and guard for whose deaths Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti are sentenced to die. He has sworn that neither Mr. Sacco nor Mr. Vanzetti belonged to the Morelli gang, nor were they in any way involved in the South Braintree crime. Mr. Madeiros was first sentenced to be executed in September, 1926, but his connection with...
...first item was a 132-page confession from one Celestino Madeiros, Portuguese garage-keeper, laborer, bootlegger, who is now awaiting execution for the Wrentham bank murder. Celestino says that he and certain members of the Morelli gang of Providence (now serving sentences in Atlanta and Leavenworth for stealing from freight cars) are the guilty ones in the Braintree murders, that he is willing to "tell everything," when the trial comes up, if the State will postpone his own execution long enough. Assistant District Attorney Dudley P. Ranney scoffed at this confession of a "murderer to whom penalties for lying mean...
...plot is a triangle but it is isosceles. At the apex is the charming, magnetic feature of Mme. Morelli, who has followed a thorny path to operatic success. Richard Northcote, artist, half-paralyzed, bereft of inspiration by his separation from Mme. Morelli, and his wife Elsie (married in an absent-minded moment), complete the eternal problem...
...conception of the character of Mme. Morelli was admirable, but its rendition by Helen Ware was supreme. It is the height of acting when a personality crosses the footlights. Miss Ware not only achieved this, but achieved it with a grace and poise which have seldom been equalled. Who would not be a "Pagan...