Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look out upon the Delaware River. No one was admitted except those on official business, even Mrs. Hauptmann and Spiritual Adviser Werner being turned away by vigilant troopers. Before each of the 14 Justices, five of whom are lay members of the Court, lay the record of a fabulous murder case...
...Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry's body in the gutter. Paul Madvig is accused of murder. Ed Beaumont arranges to have himself invited into the camp of Madvig's enemy, Shad O'Rory, has a hard time getting out. But back he goes, once patched up, calmly watches Shad O'Rory being choked to death...
...jury, after 53 minutes, dutifully found Adulteress Rattenbury innocent and Dupe Stoner guilty last week of the murder of "Rats," she being promptly set free and he sentenced to hang. "I am glad she has been spared!" cried Murderer Stoner...
Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
...nearby stage half a century ago. Some villain had struck down a middleaged, grey-haired man, rolled him up in curtains, then in linoleum, finally in carpets and tied the big bundle with a rope. When Sir Bernard Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There are certain peculiar marks where the skull was indented by a blow which may prove significant...