Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely and that all the facts in connection with it were known...
...public see what is being painted in the United States today. A newspaper doesn't endorse murder when it prints the news of a murder." May I complete his statement by adding that neither do newspapers pay prize money to the murderers? . . . GEORGIA S. RAPER Columbus, Ohio...
...Brothers Ivan and Feodor Kriachkov assassinated their fellow worker Ivan Schmerov because he had speeded up his daily output 200%. Tried before a military tribunal, they were sentenced to death. In the coal mine at Stalino two assistant foremen, a checkweigher and an electrician were arrested for the murder of a fast-working Stakhanovite who had peached on them to the Bolshevik labor boss as "opposed to Stakhanovism." In a nearby mine a worker shot at his Stakhanovite mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member...
...Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...
...Eleven heads depicted!--Eleven major characters, each doing his level best to bewilder the unfortunate spectator. All detective movies befuddle us. But this one--oh boy! After studying intently those aforesaid faces in the CRIMSON, it is still impossible to pick out the first and principal of the numerous murder victims. And as for the villain, when he and his infernal craft were bared on the screen, we absolutely could not recall having seen him before. The crimes are so freely sprinkled throughout the picture that the last time someone took a knife in his back, nobody in the audience...