Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed by many that Bruno will be found guilty of murder in the first degree with a recommendation for mercy...
...Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...
...that she had nursed and tended him for 30 years and her words, "I knew I must have an operation and I didn't want Dennis to be without care," have all stirred the well of British sentiment to its depths. Two days after her conviction as a murderer Mother May was assured of reprieve. In Britain for pardon to follow reprieve in a murder case is rare indeed. Last week Mother May was taken home by limousine and police were assigned "to guard her from cranks." Leaning forward excitedly as the car swept up to her door...
...Great Hotel Murder (Fox). Month ago in Under Pressure Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen were a pair of truculent sand hogs, snarling savagely at each other while digging a vehicular tunnel. This time they are rival detectives, investigating the death of a banker in a hotel and thereby putting all its guests under suspicion of murder...
...essential pattern: an amiable numbskull outwitted by a smug sophisticate. Cinemaddicts who enjoy listening to the kind of vituperation between Lowe and McLaglen which has remained marketable at the box-office for the past eight years will probably overlook the fact that as detective fiction The Great Hotel Murder is strictly routine...