Word: murdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in a Murfreesboro, Ark. courtroom a Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years...
...murder in the moonlight?" queries the preview. "Well, you'll find the answer in 'Moonlight Murder'." The reviewer did find the answer, and to save you all kinds of trouble and boredom, he'll tell you: it was murder, and in the moonlight...
...tyrant in his peasant days. But Rudo as an illegitimate prince befriending the commoners, studying art, hating the nobility, philosophizing over nature, marrying a peasant girl, founding an orphanage, is a dull figure compared with Rudo the jachook, worrying about the regular arrival of the allowance that prevented his murder...
...fear," observed the Realmleader more calmly, "one fear- and I say it quite openly-that the countries around us into which the poison of Communism is slowly eating its way will gradually succumb to bolshevism. . . . Of course we could say of Spain: 'Let them slaughter their officers and murder their priests and intellectuals-it is none of our business.' I would have the mentality of a child if I should take that attitude. We do not live on the moon. What happens in Europe does concern us. I believe that we 'wild nationalists' are, after...
Meantime a highly emotional fuse was stuck in an already explosive situation with the development of a sensational waterfront murder case. For the killing of a freighter engineer in San Francisco last April, police last week arraigned four suspects, announced that one of them had confessed committing the crime on Union orders. To the defendants' defense rushed the I. L. A., trumpeting: 'There shall not be another . . . frame-up like the case of Mooney and Billings...