Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARTHUR TRAIN has delighted the Saturday Evening Post's 3,000-000 readers for many months with his inimitable Mr. Tutt; thousands more have enjoyed his novels. But all of these admirers, we are afraid, will be disappointed in "Manhattan Murder," the story of a man and a girl, plus one of the largest assortments of cops and robbers ever captured between the covers of a detective story. This complexity is further increased by the disconnected essay on crime methods which has been interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer...
...were much disappointed but mostly because Train has spoiled both a fine essay on criminal methods and an entertaining story for the Post. The combination, a priori is impossible because of the limitations in length imposed by the murder story form. The author has written with a detail fitting for a scenario but as neither essay nor fiction, the book is disappointingly valueless...
...election system insures absolute honesty. Under rigidly-enforced civil service regulations, the merit system holds good in all city departments. Last year Milwaukee had only one murder, one manslaughter. Famed for incorruptibility, its police department, under a non-political chief removable only for malfeasance, has rid the city of gangsters, given it rock-bottom burglary insurance rates. Its fire department and fire prevention program have reduced fire losses from an average of $1,440 to about $256 per fire, secured for its building owners about the lowest fire insurance rates available...
Vera Stretz had a bang-up trial. She was represented by stubby, truculent Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, famed for his defense of the Scottsboro boys (TIME, April 10, 1933). She had an audience of some 300 murder fans, including slinky Actress Tallulah Bankhead. A corps of some of the best talent the U. S. Press could muster looked searchingly into Miss Stretz's Germanic countenance, was not in complete accord as to what...
...greatest offenders revolted. In an editorial entitled WHAT IS HAPPENING TO JUSTICE? Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News printed examples of the most offensive coverage of the Stretz trial he could find, admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist enough to put four bullets in his lover...