Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testimony was not done. Several other witnesses were called who answered him, denying his several points. One of them had testified regarding a quotation of Heinen in the newspapers (Heinen was reported as saying that sending out the Shenandoah with some of her safety valves removed was "murder") that when he read that statement he said to his wife: "That man is a liar and he knows he is a liar...
Stern Frenchmen opined that the Druses would heed permanently such a warning that they must not murder Christians, pillage caravans, or continue to ambush French regiments. The Druses replied by engaging the French in battle with what weapons they can command for three entire days. At the end of that the French forces evacuated Suedia after an occupation of 36 hours, "on account of lack of water," according to French communiques, and took up a position at Messei Frey...
...murder has been done. A lawyer, famous chiefly because he has never defended a case in which he is not convinced of the innocence of his client, takes the case. The wretched, half crazy husband of a lovely woman has been killed. She is charged. Deep in the play the lawyer discovers that she is guilty, despite her insistence to the contrary. To complicate matters he is in love with her. His problem, then, is whether to go through with the case or by dropping it virtually insure her conviction by his very act. He carries on and wins...
...Holy Terror is a melodrama of the coal mines. Its chief character is a lawless fellow whom eyerybody, including detectives hired to break a strike, was anxious to hang by the neck until he was dead. There is a murder charge against him toward the end to urge on the slightly lagging plot. There are revolvers, lovers and a ti'ial scene. Taken in one critical gulp they go down as only pretty good...
...inside page five pictures of Mr. Thaw were published: AS DANDY, AS SLAYER, AS FUGITIVE, AS BOY BEATER, AS FIREMAN. Two more photographs meaningly compared his features with those of Harrison Noel, mentally delinquent protagonist of a murder trial now occupying national attention. A chronological table of Thaw's misdemeanors bore the title: "Highlights in the story of wealth, mental decay, vicious living, murder and insane asylums, depicting the life of Harry K. Thaw. . . The Rip Van Winkle of the Bright Light District is hitting it up again. . . His bloated face and protruding eyes mark him as he reels...