Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise well-written story of the Wilkes-Barre trial was marred for me by your reference to it as "a juicy murder" for which "editors thanked Providence." [TIME, Oct. 15]. ... If this accurately pictures the professional attitude toward such revolting crimes, would it not be more accurate to change your favorite expression of "newshawks" to "news buzzards...
...guilty verdict was rendered on the charge of murdering or instructing his agents to murder 77 German citizens...
...France public resentment at the ease with which the murders were executed forced the reorganization of the Doumergue Cabinet, the retirement of Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut. Working fast and furiously to save their reputations, the French secret police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO...
...Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...
...Francisco Examiner which apparently had been badly scooped or Chief Justice William Harrison Waste of the California Supreme Court or David A. Lamson, sitting in his death cell at San Quentin Prison. Last year a San Jose jury had found the young Stanford University Press salesmanager guilty of murder after it refused to believe his story that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured her skull (TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing...