Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago all four Brady gangsters were in jail, indicted for murder. They secured a change of venue which transferred three of them to the county jail at Greenfield, Ind. There last October they clubbed Sheriff Clarence Watson, made a daylight escape. Linked to them last April was a $11,400 bank robbery at Farmland...
...more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded...
...Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
...present version Dame May Whitty is the psychic—a term which is itself a hallowed souvenir—who tries to solve a murder by making the twelve possible suspects hold hands in the dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck...
...Murder...