Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mettle nowadays is the Home Office's great criminal pathologist. Thrice in a twelvemonth Sir Bernard has failed to solve spectacular murder cases: The Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1; the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 2; and the Case of the Waterloo Legs-limbs which, as Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Daily Express never tires of repeating, were found under the seat of a Waterloo railway train wrapped in a copy of the Daily Express...
...Toronto, somebody threw the body of a middle-aged woman in through a window in the reading room of the University of Toronto library. Newspapers reported: "Police are working on a murder theory...
...Harvard Peace Society has no dogma other than that murder and civilization are incompatible. It recognizes that each new generation must make an original analysis of its problems before it can proffer valid solutions. Therefore, H. P. S. has two objectives: (1) study, (2) action. Various study groups inquire into specific phases of war and its cure. When conclusions are reached and the Society votes its approval, H. P. S. becomes a concerted force for the translation of those conclusions into action...
...London with Scotland Yard and in Paris with the Surete Nationale. Jacob is a German, a Jew and an undistinguished journalist who has done articles critical of Nazidom for English papers. In London a certain Dr. Hans Wesemann, believed by Swiss last week to head an international kidnap & murder ring operating for the German Government, arranged for Jacob to go from his home in Strasbourg to Basle, Switzerland on promise of pay for further free-lance work. On the night of March 9, Wesemann, posing as an anti-Nazi, and Jacob left the Basle Restaurant Zum Schiefen...
...Deeply sympathized with Godfearing, humdrum Conservative Hamer Russell M. P. who fainted dead away last week when his sprightly son John received a five-year jail sentence for "attempted murder"; in abetting the attempted suicide of an expectant mother and abetting on two other occasions illegal operations. Said Expectant-Mother Carol Leadbeater: "I still love John and want to marry him. He did not throw me into the River Trent! No such thing...