Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith Boston: "Great Hotel Murder...
Keith Boston: "Great Hotel Murder...
That the Home Office has, in bland, knowing Sir Bernard Spilsbury a Sherlock Holmes who never fails, is a settled Empire conviction. Did he not send Crippen to the gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder...
...contained anything really worth while. Plodding police work proved the No. 2 corpse to be that of 42-year-old Dancer Violette Kaye who had been living with a 26-year-old wavy-haired ne'er-do-well Toni Mancini, "The Dancing Waiter." He was indicted for her murder, tried, acquitted...
...jury last week wrote finis to Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, returned a British "open verdict," meaning that that case also is closed...