Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portion of the Loyalist population was being forced, under the threat of punishment, to become informers. The Serenas, picturesque night watchmen who let people into their homes late at night for a small tip, were ordered for questioning. The two oldest inhabitants of any building in which ''murder, robberies, looting, arrests or any other offenses were committed" were ordered to appear before military courts. All those possessing documents, pamphlets, court records, books or newspapers of the Republic were ordered to surrender them. Anyone who acquired property since July 18, 1936 was ordered to prove that he had acquired...
...pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming up to get him. Well, they never would. Not for nothing had he sat through two showings of the movie Jesse James. This was his country, the Beartooth Mountains. Here he could live indefinitely with only his rifle...
...Philadelphia judge & jury last week awarded the electric chair to Herman Petrillo, 40, spaghetti salesman and "brains" of a murder-for-insurance syndicate alleged to have done away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey...
...bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom-ridden mystery of murder on the Grimpen Mire...
...MURDER MASKS MIAMI-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Lieutenant Valcour gets a killer who uses a murderous hypo on two unpopular women-an ultra-respectable old lady and a blackmailing young golddigger. Swift, breezy, tongue-in-cheek tale...