Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juries, judges and scared defendants last week cleared court dockets of four celebrated samples of espionage, murder, mutiny, mayhem...
Irwin Away. For the murder of beauteous, pictureworthy Veronica Gedeon and of her mother and a male boarder in their Manhattan apartment (TIME, April 12, 1937), syphilitic, tuberculous Robert Irwin was sentenced to 139 years in prison. Taken from Manhattan to a padded cell at Sing Sing, where he turned over $500 to prison guards, Sculptor Irwin said famed Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz had given him the money for pleading guilty to three second-degree murders. Lawyer Leibowitz is proud that he has "never lost a client to the electric chair...
...were serving time for murder. He, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, führer of the green-shirted zealots who carried little bags of Rumanian soil tied around their necks, was under a ten-year sentence at hard labor for conspiring against his country with a "foreign Government"-i.e., Germany-and inciting to revolt. Fiery, handsome "Little Hitler"Codreanu might just as well have been in jail for murder, for he had a notorious reputation as a political assassin...
Grynszpan was being held under two charges: the capital crime of murdering the German Embassy Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath; and the technical but grave charge of having remained in France in defiance of an order issued to expel him from the country as an undesirable alien some time before his crime. Previous Paris dispatches saying he would likely be guillotined for the murder were superseded by guesses that he would be let off without hard labor...
Nazis, describing the Rumanian killings as "cold-blooded murder", posted signs in various parts of Berlin labelled "revenge for Codreanu...