Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Town, W. Va.), to hear sentence passed. A New York Tribune reporter was nearby. "Brown sat up in bed, while the verdict was rendered." he telegraphed his paper. "The jury found him guilty of treason, advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder in the first degree. Brown lay down quickly and said nothing. There was no demonstration of any kind." Recording John Brown's execution, the Tribune somewhat jauntily noted: "The old man was swung off at 11:15 precisely...
Died. Hannah Armstrong Munsch, 71, daughter of William B. Duff Armstrong whom circuit-riding Lawyer Abraham Lincoln helped absolve of murder in 1857 by the celebrated means of using an almanac to prove that witnesses who saw the defendant in "bright moonlight" were lying; in Easton...
Hardly a summer goes by now without some impatient young criminal providing the Press with an "American Tragedy Murder." Paramount filmed the story in 1931, subsequently defending itself against one suit brought by Mr. Dreiser because the company had "vivisected" his work, another brought by Grace Brown's mother, who claimed she had been libeled. A U.S. playwright made a melodrama out of the story. A pair of French playwrights made it a character study. A Russian playwright made it a text for Bolshevism. But no adapters have departed so radically from the novel or achieved so exciting...
...with the workers in the drying room, his seduction of Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra, his wild joy when Sondra proposes to him, his wild despair when Roberta tells him she is going to have a baby. In a final burst of speed, the drama skips the actual murder, winds up with a half-symbolic, half-realistic trial scene, which concludes with the voices of the jury sending Clyde to the electric chair...
...manifesto distributed in the South: "Could Catholics murder Mayor Gaynor of New York and then elect a Catholic Mayor of the City? They...