Word: murderess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor, Huey Long, despite a Statewide uproar, allowed a murderess to go to the gallows...
Clara Phillips, famed "hammer murderess" doing 35 years in California's San Quentin Prison, lost a chance for parole when caught flirting with a Los Angeles burglar who delivered dental supplies to the women's quarters...
...womanhood rising strong amid tears to make the ultimate sacrifice of a husband, were tastefully described in court today as Mrs. Pollak began her march toward an acquittal for the shooting of good old Joe Pollak, her onetime spouse. . . . While the State was hinting that she was a murderess and her own counsel was describing her as a wronged woman who had never done harm to anyone save for one slight killing, her pose remained the same. . . . She looked like the lady on the dollar, only more expensive...
...childbirth go directly to heaven. The large lying-in cast of Life Begins emphasizes the predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton. She (Loretta Young) is a young matron who anticipates, in addition to the pangs of a delivery, 20 years in prison because she is a murderess. This causes the physicians who are attending her confinement to make a decision which is tragic for Grace Sutton's young husband (Eric Linden). When her labor pains have lasted for 30 hours, they decide on a Caesarian operation, save the child and let the mother...
...much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen...