Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bell with the officers, though they had a tentative physical description of the suspect. As for the gun, he said that it belonged to the girl. Though most policemen would instinctively detain a man in such circumstances, the cops merely confiscated the weapon-a .22-cal. revolver (the murderer had carried a "small black pistol"). Hours later, police matched up the gun incident with the murder man hunt and rushed back to the hotel. Speck had left 30 minutes earlier...
...Speck, he was speedily visited and informed of his rights by Cook County Public Defender Gerald Getty, 53, whose office represents 9,600 indigent defendants a year and who has defended 402 murder suspects since 1947-not one of whom has been sent to the electric chair. Declaring that Speck would plead innocent, probably on grounds of insanity, Getty served notice that he would need "several months" to prepare his case...
...children. As a result, the state laws of descent seemed to entitle his surviving wife to all of his tiny $4,000 estate. But Charlotte Mahoney did not get a cent; a probate court gave everything to his parents. Reason: Charlotte had been tried for Howard's gunshot murder, convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to a maximum 15 years' imprisonment...
Since Vermont statutes do not cover such situations, the probate court merely invoked the old common-law rule that a slayer shall not profit from his crime. Charlotte stubbornly appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court on the ground, among others, that the rule applied only to heirs convicted of murder-not manslaughter...
Worse than War. Bakal offers some unnerving statistics to back his thesis that firearms have become a national menace. Firearm fatalities amount to 17,000 each year-5,000 murders and 12,000 accidents and suicides. Since 1900, guns have brought death to approximately 750,000 people in the U.S., considerably more than the 530,000 Americans killed in all U.S. wars. Many of the criminal killings would have occurred anyway-a person bent on murder could always use another weapon-but the easy availability of guns undoubtedly swelled the total...