Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sheriff R. L. Shamblin hustled three Negroes into an automobile one midnight last week, sped down a lonely back road toward Birmingham. His prisoners were Dan Pippen, 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, indicted for the murder of a white girl. Sheriff Shamblin had heard that a mob was planning to break into the Tuscaloosa jail and lynch them next day. As he drove along, two carloads of armed men overtook him, demanded his prisoners. Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies...
Based partly upon the case of a Huguenot. Jean Galas, who was executed for murder in Toulouse and partly upon the case of an army officer who was beheaded for treason. Voltaire does not adhere to history at the expense of drama. George Arliss, who likes to be a kind, romantic, dignified old gentleman, makes Voltaire more whimsical than embittered but he gives a dextrously intelligent performance...
...compelled to take a different attitude toward the Foreign Legion. In the cinema this organization is shown to be a compromise between a sanatorium and a Wild West show. Its members when they are not busy forgetting unpleasant pasts are busy forgetting their duties as soldiers while they murder one another and misbehave with ladies...
...fantastic, false-toothed, green-wigged old dame knew, but left a retired New York detective to find out, who committed the murder in the locked room of the California castle...
...Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide...