Word: murderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell thought he had "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (TIME, July 17). When ex-Butcher Dolezal told first one story and then another about how he disposed of his supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week Clevelanders wondered whether another murder or another arrest would tell them that Sheriff O'Donnell had yet to nab the Butcher...
...President Roosevelt promised you peace with honor as well as future material welfare. Instead, your Government convicted you to mass murder, because of the scarcity of food, in a war in which you can never be victorious. Not we, but they, have cheated...
...pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged to Poland was the murder of a girl in New Jersey, in connection with which her Polish father, a clergyman, is under arrest...
Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...
...lawyers and clients from outsmarting justice by legal tricks, Author-Lawyer Train suggests that: 1) cases should be tried in court, not in the yellow press; 2) suspects should be examined before trial in the presence of their counsel; 3) jury verdicts should not have to be unanimous (in murder cases, eleven out of twelve is enough, in other cases, a lesser number); 4) the use of peremptory challenges should be cut down, practically abolished. He adds: "The history of criminal legislation, however, suggests that none of these obvious reforms will be adopted at least during this generation...