Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was of considerable embarrassment to District Attorney John Fred Odom of East Baton Rouge. It was up to him to investigate both the murder of Long and the execution of Dr. Weiss by Long's guards. Unfortunately District Attorney Odom is an anti-Long man, for Baton Rouge is an anti-Long town which did not mourn much for the Dictator's passing last week. What was more, Mr. Odom was among those present at the New Orleans meeting under discussion...
...impassioned radio address last week Share-Our-Wealth Preacher Smith aired his own suspicions as to who was responsible for the Kingfish's murder, laid the blame on New Orleans newspaper publishers and Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi, whom he darkly accused of journeying to New Orleans week before with $25,000 in his pocket. In his best form, "The Man" Bilbo snapped back: "The Reverend ... is a contemptible, dirty, vicious, pusillanimous, with-malice-aforethought, damnable, self-made liar...
...emotional disturbance. Used by 52 Chicago banks on their employes, the polygraph has turned up many a petty pilferer. Corroborative evidence based on the polygraph has been admitted four times in U. S. courts of law. Last year Governor Comstock of Michigan pardoned a convict who steadfastly denied the murder with which he was charged and successfully passed a polygraph test...
...State Penitentiary at Angola, La., James Beadle was serving a life sentence for his part in the murder five years ago of James LeBouef whose body was found in Lake Palourde. To his cell word was brought that his son, Pleasant Beadle, 17, had drowned in the same Lake Palourde trying to rescue Liberty LeBouef, 16, daughter of the late James LeBouef...
...money and social position. No romance graced her relationship with the Prince. "On neither side was there any but ignoble passions . . . the lover's half senile lust . . . the mistress's vulgar greed for vulgar gains." Sophie was an example of a "common, inoffensive human weakness, snobbishness, provoking murder, most appalling of human crimes...