Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Donovan Affair-Jewels, murder, detectives, murder, mystery, murder...
Reverend Norris goes on trial for murder on Nov. 1. Meanwhile, earnest workers of the First Baptist Church of Tarrant County, Texas, are planning a month of prayer meetings and song festivals in behalf of Killer Norris. The avowed purpose of their campaign is to reach the heartstrings of every man and woman in Tarrant County, whence will come the jurors who will try Killer Norris. His congregation has also scheduled a subscription meeting from which to glean funds for paying his lawyers...
...since The Bat. The playwright has managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close the one you are supposed never to have suspected seriously is revealed as guilty. It is all delightfully thrilling fun, and Paul Harvey, as the detective...
...scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose thrust into a book. Mr. Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen in awe to their son's condescending accounts of long arguments with Mr. Calisch. They looked at one another anxiously when Emanuel devoured every published detail of the murder of a small Jewish boy, Bobbie Franks, by two intellectual, older Jewish boys, Leopold and Loeb, in Chicago...
...judge asked: "Do you think it was funny to murder a man?" "To tell the truth, Judge," said the boy, seriously, "I have lost my mental capacity to explain. . . . I don't want you to think, Judge, that I thought it was funny to kill this man. I thought it was funny for you to ask that question...