Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspect brass knuckles, handcuffs, and rusty instruments of torture came to Edward of Wales last week. He visited the famed "Black Museum" at Scotland Yard. There officials are reported to have "thrilled" him by displaying gruesome exhibits which have figured in various well known trials for every crime from murder to "crippling a baby with a toothpick...
Least this summary sound indifferent, let it be made clear that "The River" is a most exciting play, and holds one's attention from beginning to end, However, the author stressed the good old melodramatic vehicles of disillusioned love and hasty murder, without availing himself of the full dramatic value docruing from an African atmosphere. It is because of this that, while it may possibly attract large audience to the Copley for several weeks to come, it cannot hope to rival "White Cargo" in effective and thought provoking morbidness...
...Attempts on the "life, integrity or liberty" of the Premier shall be punished with imprisonment from six months to life, according to whether the offense involves "words," "acts," or culminates in the murder of the Premier...
...this unwillingness to look up on cadavers, and it has been a journalistic tradition never to print pictures of those killed by violence except for purposes of identification, and then only after the photograph has been retouched. Instead of showing the actual body when reproducing the scene of a murder, a stock phrase was used, " X marks the spot. . . ." How this phrase is vanishing from journalism was deplorably demonstrated last week by two Manhattan gum-chewers' sheets...
...Littleton, Col., one Dr. Harold E. Blazer chloroformed his 32-year-old daughter. Last week he was to be put on trial for murder and the court set about impaneling a jury. On the first day, 47 men were examined?farmers, mechanics, laborers, business men; out of this number 12 could not be found who did not state in definite terms that they were incontrovertibly prejudiced in favor of the defendant. Yet the case against Blazer was clear. The question raised by the disqualified jurymen involved an exceedingly subtle definition of law, an exceedingly complicated issue of ethics. "To commit...