Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan store. After only three years he was called back to the city's service. While Mayor Walker was dining out and making the wisecracks which endeared him to every Irish heart, things had gone on which put his administration in bad odor. One was the notoriously unsolved murder of the famed Gambler Arnold Rothstein. To rescue the administration from shame, Grover Whalen was made police commissioner. Soon the shortcomings of the police department were forgotten. Commissioner Whalen completely and drastically altered the city's method of traffic regulation, thereby producing an entirely new furor...
...station house where Mueller was first taken he was cursed by policemen, buffeted about, refused medical treatment for an hour-and-a-half. Agents' defense: they had been acting on an anonymous letter (which they did not produce at the hearing). They are held for second-degree murder, released on $7,500 bail...
...embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly...
...Strangers is a beautiful, chaste mulatto girl named Famie. Trouble begins when she spies on a red-headed white camper across the river, is seduced by him, but keeps going back. Her romance ends when the sheriff kills her lover, who is wanted for a Texas hold-up murder. After her redheaded, white baby is born she marries the conscience-stricken cousin who tipped off the sheriff after following her one night. But the child is the only thing she has any thought for. Until he is 13 she is still bathing him like a baby. Later to keep...
...Chicago she watched an old grifter friend hanged for a payroll murder, got jobs in transient bureaus which never lasted longer than the time it took to check up on her past record. When Bertha struck up acquaintance with a statistician working on a Federal transient survey and he offered her a job, she took it; her wanderlust was nearly sated. She decided to settle down in Manhattan, raise her own child. She was 30, and she had seen the world...