Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of U. S. v. Mary-Helen Coal Co., et al., fully deserved the intervention of able Mr. McMahon and distinguished Mr. Johnston. For at issue was the repute of Harlan County's coal barons and deputized thugs, whose propensities for murder, assault, and general repression of miners' tendency to join John L. Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce...
...clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor, who has been accused of killing a citizen named Robert Moore. "My clients," said Lawyer Dawson, "include gentlemen of substance and breeding." Judge Ford decided to stay where he was, get on with hearing 250 Government witnesses...
Thus, last week in the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla, Mary Eleanor Smith told the story. The murder of James Bassett was the most celebrated West Coast crime of the 1920's. Mrs. Smith and her son Earl were picked up in Oakland, Calif, in Bassett's car. The fragmentary corpse was never found though much excavation was done about Mrs. Smith's premises. The trial of Mrs. Smith was the first in the U. S. in which the prosecution used the lie-detector and "truth serum." Mrs. Smith and Earl, who were rather simple people...
...World's Body is a collection of 15 essays ranging from discussion of the form of Milton's Lycidas to a review of a novel by Rebecca West. It includes a highly civilized polishing off of Philosopher George Santayana, a neat dismemberment of T. S. Eliot for Murder in the Cathedral, similarly effective attacks on Edna St. Vincent Millay and Critic I. A. Richards. A polite executioner, Professor Ransom never fails to call attention to the courage of his victims, to the elegance of their dress and manners; and he is willing to let the final blow fall...
...broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons...