Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone who throws a human corpse into the waters around Cleveland can be fined $50, sent to the workhouse for 30 days for violation of a health ordinance. More than likely, anyone who thus polluted Cleveland's waters would be guilty of murder too, would therefore be prosecuted under Ohio's murder statutes instead of Cleveland's health ordinance. Nevertheless, last week when the corpse of a woman, from which the head, arms and legs had been expertly cut, was found in the shallow waters of Lake Erie at Cleveland, police announced that they could use nothing...
Cleveland's police did not make this startling announcement out of callousness, nor were they taking lightly the atrocious murder. They made their statement apparently in desperation, on the slim chance that the butcher-murderer would show himself when he learned that his punishment would be so light. Reason for their desperation was that last week's dismembered body was the eighth that had been found in Cleveland since September 1934, when Torso No. 1, also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered...
Said the jury last week: "Guilty of murder in the second degree...
Stunned sat the district attorney, his assistant, a county detective, a onetime county detective, Uniontown's night Chief of Police and another State trooper-all under indictment as participants in Frank Monaghan's murder...
...does the thinking that finally cracks the case. An honest gambler tries to sell his properties to a friend he hopes will run them with equal integrity, in order that in may marry a Boston girl who doesn't like roulette. This admirable attempt is thwarted by the murder of the gambler's friend, and the chase is on. Another murder throws suspicion on all sorts of people, but MacLane and Farrell are never fooled for a minute, or at least not for long. The final upshot of all this confusion may not be divulged, but suffice...