Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders, ten were sent up for armed robbery, three for murder, one for burglary. All but two had been raised in cities of 50,000 or more, and the two exceptions had lived in such cities since adolescence. All but five had spent 18 months or more in other penal institutions. All without exception had shown delinquency at an early age. In physique they ranged from skinny giants to chunky short men, but Mr. Clemmer noticed that none was overweight...
CRADLED IN MURDER-Rudd Fleming -Simon & Schuster...
...found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment than a marriage...
...Hebner, dead or alive, and for his brothers, to see if they could identify the corpse in the Hebner cellar. Informed by the Deputy Prosecutor that her Miami friend, Grover, had hoped to marry her, grey-haired, 55-year-old Mrs. Hebner, indicted last week for Hebner's murder, betrayed maidenly confusion. Said she: "Well, I didn't know that. It certainly was nice...
There's Always a Woman (Columbia) builds up around rambunctious, banjo-eyed Joan Blondell a strong case for more blondes in the detective business. Skidding along on her intuition through a mystery that has as much mirth as murder, Private Detective Blondell bumps pertly from clue to clue, lands on the solution while the police and her sleuthing cinema husband (Melvyn Douglas) are still fumbling around...