Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While reporting a murder trial in a North Georgia mountain town last year, I heard Pepper make an argument to the jury which almost had me in tears-and I was used to such things...
...reasons. People do not collide as might be expected, but rather as a violent artist, never transgressing of course the laws of possibility, demands in the interests of tragedy. At the beginning of "Winterset," a Christ-like radical is shown being condemned by a judge to die for a murder which he did not do, with his infant son in the room, and the three guilty men near at hand. Sixteen years later, by very little more than chance, these strange associates are ironically reunited: the son, a young man inspired by the conviction of his father's innocence...
...warrant, sworn out by Mrs. Taylor's brother, charged the General with her murder. The inquest was promptly adjourned. General Denhardt was led off to the office of the County Judge, where bail of $25,000 was furnished by his old friend Dr. Arthur T. McCormack, president-elect of the American Public Health Association. A hearing was set for this week. Meantime Mrs. Taylor's body was exhumed. Examination revealed that she had been shot from the front, the bullet having struck her breast, pierced the heart, come out the back. At once officials attached great importance...
...Miller says he was a timid, colorless bumpkin when he showed up in Chicago for his first newspaper job. Sent to cover police courts, murder trials and hangings, Cub Webster Miller soon learned to talk tough, shortened his first name to Webb "because it made a better by-line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed...
...Craig's Wife" is merely episodical. The complications arising from one incident. Craig's presence in the home of a man who committed murder and suicide shortly after he left, finally get it across that his wife loves him less than her house. After much superfluous buildup he leaves. At the end we see the great catasrophe, of one who lived to herself left to herself...