Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melee. When it ended, one guard and one convict lay dead, six others lay unconscious in the yard. Another convict soon died of his wounds, and last week, after six blood transfusions, Warden Larkin died of his infected stab wounds. As the five surviving convicts were being indicted for murder other big prisons had their own troubles...
...April, General Denhardt was tried for murder. The jury disagreed. The dead woman had three brothers who muttered, but kept their own counsel...
...Fannie Hurst-Harper ($2.50). Ten recent short stories in Fannie Hurst's deep-breaking, broad-bosomed style, about murder, marriage, young love...
Piety. The first murder in Biblical history was whitewashed in this wise by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke of the University of London: "I want to point out that Cain's slaying of Abel was not jealous murder but a ritual for increasing the fertility of the soil. Recent finds in North Syria dating from, about the second millennium B. C. show that it was a ritual to kill a shepherd at the time of the summer drouth and that Cain probably worshiped by killing Abel...
...month and be sure- most of the financial backing came from the "Richest Man in Spain,'' Monarchist Count of Romanones and racketeer-tycoon Juan March, the uneducated, onetime tobacco smuggler. Date of the uprising was set for July 25, 1936, the feast of Santiago (St. James). The murder of Fascist Deputy Jose Calvo Sotelo on July 12 pulled the trigger prematurely...