Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand. Occasionally the man with dark glasses shifted his position for a better view, but Prisoner Hauptmann took no notice of his presence, had not given him more than a glance when led out of the room ten minutes...
...Murder- It would be a strange jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
Hottest of hot stories in the U. S. Press was the Lindbergh kidnapping, murder, investigation and last week the arrest of the clam-mouthed Hauptmann (see p. 12). Any publisher would have given a year's profits for a complete scoop on the case. Certain Manhattan dailies even had men permanently assigned to the story, year in, year out. An ambitious Hearstling visited New Jersey State Police headquarters every week on his day off, patiently burrowing an inside track...
Invading the realms of Sherlock Holmes, Warner Oland, as the general Chinese detective, Charlie Chan, transfers the scene of his activities to London in the current features at the R.K.O. Boston, entitled "Charlie Chan in London." In murder mysteries the important feature is the story and this time it is only a fair one, suffering from a superabundance of trite tricks of the trade such as too-obvious attempts to make everybody seem to be the criminal. Having just finished the famous (?) Barstow case the philosophic Mr. Chan is preparing to return to China and the numerous little Chans when...
...second feature is entitled, "The Case of the Howling Dog," and a strange case it is, indeed. Warren William is capable as the lawyer who unravels the most complex of murder mysteries. The story is carefully worked out and will satisfy those who are fond of being confused by the intricacies of mystery tales...