Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present. It has wielded great political power, but this is waning, although politicians in general steer clear of incurring its wrath. In recent municipal elections it succeeded in some cities and failed in others. Its former Grand Dragon is serving a life term in prison for murder of a girl...
...this point, the complicated amnesties available to the insane afford legal loopholes for the murderer. If it can be proven that the killer was crazy, and by the very promiscuity of his murders he is so branded, he will obtain special consideration separating him from the good, honest burglar who killed a man to escape capture. The Omaha sniper, if his case is cleverly managed, may be committed to a state lunatic asylum from which he can conceivably be released as "cured" when outward sings of abnormality disappear. Whereas the honest burglar with understandable motives for murder suffers the extreme...
...President formally approved a sentence of death imposed by a court martial on Lieutenant John S. Thompson, U. S. A. The Lieutenant had pleaded guilty to the murder of a young woman in the Philippines. The father, a minister on Long Island, asked the President to grant clemency on the ground that his son was insane. But the President confirmed the sentence. It is believed to be the first death sentence ever imposed by a U. S. court martial in peacetime...
...Quentin prison in California, Harry Garbutt of Chicago sat in the death cell awaiting the noose which was scheduled to end his life that morning for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Lee Hunn in Pasadena in September...
...PREFER BLONDS - Anita Loos, Boni, Liveright ($1.75). These confidences should be read in connection with that diverting hoax, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, by "Cleone Knox" (TIME, Feb. 15). They are those of an unamed young lady who was acquitted of murder by a weeping judge and jury in Arkansas, went into cinema, and has since been pursuing her education in Manhattan under the care and guidance of a gentleman named Gus Eisman. The latter is in the button profession in Chicago, and she calls him "Daddy" only when a place does...