Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's interest. Yet in the newspapers of that day and the next the President and his speech were unceremoniously jostled to one side on the front page by dispatches from a small New Jersey town where a German ex-convict was on trial for the murder of the son of a popular aviator...
State Opens. All twelve jurors had sworn that they had formed no prejudgment on the 20th Century's most fantastic murder case. One amazing prospective juror was found who confessed that he had never heard of the Hauptmann-Lindbergh affair, indeed did not even know for what case he had been called. He was challenged by the defense for "terrible lack of intelligence," excused...
...news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...France things are different. Under sentence of death in Paris last week lay a surly, silent 19-year-old girl named Violette Nozières. Not since 1887, when Jeanne Thomas was executed for burning up her mother in the fireplace, had a Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned...
Bobby Clark has been deprived of his cane in Thumbs Up. His gadget this year is a hollow cigar through which he peppers court attendants with spitballs from the bench as he presides over a murder trial. He also plays Senator Screwy Short from Louisiana, and a pathetic character who wanders into a Communist printing plant to get a poster made for a lodge dance. Despite his repeated protests, "We just want to dance!" the poster he finally gets demands that all the lodge members meet in Union Square, march up Fifth Avenue, fight the police...