Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier "Red" Robinson (his home is in Anderson, Ind.), who, when he found Illinois humming with talk about that week's triple murder, scrapped his prepared speech and got up another one overnight called "The Eleventh Commandment." The seven judges were his to all but one man when he declaimed, among other ringing sentences: "Do you blame our youth for turning to a criminal career when, in those formative years before character...
...last crime was to poison an elderly couple with whom she had lived, after stealing their entire savings. On three occasions she volunteered to nurse sick women friends, whose deaths she caused by introducing poison into the drugs prescribed for them by their physicians. Her first and most revolting murder was accomplished when she poisoned her fiance, "for the pleasure of watching his death agony," and celebrated over his corpse the dread "Mass of Satan." It was the latter which made France shiver...
Judge Marcus Kavanaugh of the Chicago Criminal Court announced the completion of a murder survey. His finding was that 170,000 murders had been committed in the U. S. in the last 20 years; that 34,000 murderers have been executed, 18,000 are in prison, and 118,000 are enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...moment had been planned with elaborate care. Early in the evening the hundred gentlemen motored to the Picayune jail where the man, one Harold ("Doc") Jackson, was held as an accessory in the murder of two government entomologists found dead near Picayune. The grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door...
...persons who have committed murder in the U. S. during the last 20 years, how-many are at large? (See POLITICAL NOTES...