Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under Federal Statutes, no person may be prosecuted, tried or punished unless an indictment is found within a certain number of years of the alleged offense. This does not extend to any person fleeing from justice. Treason or other capital offense (wilful murder excepted) 3 years...
...Murder in three inch headlines, robbery is packed columns, and sex abuse wherever these are not, have too long hammered their suggestions from the first page. Bury such matters among the advertisements of the inner pages and they lose half their force. Keep it out entirely and the press will be thoroughly respectable, but such a measure will come only with time. The Des Moines Register has driven the first wedge...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?A harsh homily by Eugene O'Neill in which lonely New England grows bitter and starts murder in the family...
When Gerald Chapman was sentenced last Saturday for the murder of Patrolman Skelly, "strong men cursed and women wept" over his fate, according to all news reports. To the citizens of Hartford where he was tried for his New Britain offense. Chapman was a vivid figure, a notorious bandit, a popular hero whose name was one to conjure with. Eighteen years of crime, the gigantic New York mail robbery, and the cold-blooded shooting of Officer Skelly only added to the glory of his name. The papers played up to him, the people applauded him. When he is hanged next...
...name which Mr. P. T. Barnum had just popularized. Next, he went back to Ludlow, married and read law in a law-office. Three years later, he was admitted to the bar, became a successful attorney. From 1908 to 1912, he was State Attorney General. He won a murder case where the plea of insanity was made, but wept when the man was sent to the gallows. At one time or another, he represented the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston & Maine Railroads and the American Express Co. in Vermont litigation...