Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...explicitly confessed herself his mistress. This state of affairs so disturbed Mr. Justice Humphreys that it took him 3½ hours to charge the jury in Old Bailey. He told them with evident regret that pity for the drugged and passion-crazed chauffeur could not extenuate the crime of murder, nor could repugnance for "Rats'" wife count properly against her at this trial...
...Beware," cried His Lordship, "that you do not convict her of this crime [murder] because she is an adulteress-an adulteress of, you may think, the most unpleasant type...
...posse armed with machine guns, tear gas and sawed-off shotguns caught up with big Baptist Eskridge 80 miles east of Orange. Jailed in Louisiana, he stormed defiantly against the "enemies" who accused him of murder...
...which is sometimes spoken of as murder, is more often thought of as manslaughter in self-defense than as murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko...