Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew of officers he had picked himself. Machado sent him 300 more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province in 1930, he was accused of 44 political assassinations which he called "suicides." He enjoys performing executions personally and "Ortiz' Mark" means a bullet at the base...
...murders of Edward Albert Ridley and his secretary Lee Weinstein in their gloomy subcellar office in Manhattan's Allen Street (TIME, May 22): the arrest of one Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that...
BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK- H. C. McNeile-Crime Club ($2). An unknown threat against the Empire and the murder of a Secret Service man pit Drum- mond et al. against a ruthless criminal genius...
...AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY-Ellery Queen-Stokes ($2). Murder of a rodeo rider in Madison Square Garden. Much about ballistics, and twice 20,000 people are searched for the weapon...
CALL OUT THE FLYING SQUAD-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Inspector Silver, investigating a country murder, encounters Scotland Yard's pet criminal...