Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roused by a crime in the shadow of the State Capitol, Governor Fred Cone screamed: "This was not a lynching;it was murder...
...where his twin 17-year-old sons Robert and Lawrence plan for Princeton in September and his daughter Marjory, 11, practices the piano under her musical mother's eye, Lawyer Liebowitz hurried to the defense of his latest notorious client. Sculptor Robert Irwin, accused of the Easter-Sunday murder of beauteous Veronica Gedeon et al. (TIME, July...
...quick-witted, with expressive eyes, a mobile face, a wide-ranged resonant voice, the gift of oratory and an intuitive awareness of jury reactions, Lawyer Liebowitz' court successes came so unbelievably as to make him appear hypnotic. The hardest case he ever had, the Max Becker prison riot murder in 1930, seemed so clear-cut against his client that when the jury brought in its verdict of not guilty, Liebowitz fainted...
...killer" whose careless slugs were suspected when a rampaging Manhattan machine gun ripped into a four-year-old boy asleep in his carriage, cried to Liebowitz and Liebowitz got him off. Vera Stretz shot her German lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, dead. Liebowitz saved her. Violinist Mischa Rosenbaum, last April murdered his pupil and mistress, Julia Nussenbaum, in a drunken orgy, slobbered to Liebowitz. The County believed Liebowitz' boast that they could never get a first-degree conviction, accepted a guilty plea of second-degree murder...
Another time Liebowitz got a jury to believe a murder suspect's alibi by asking him, "What is your occupation?" "Professional pickpocket." "How long have you been a pickpocket?" "Twenty-four years." "If you are acquitted of this murder charge what will your occupation be in the future?" "Pickpocket." The jury, overwhelmed by such brash honesty, believed and acquitted...