Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps even more farmous than "Listerine" is the well known "One out of every five" advertisement which shakes its bony finger at all who venture forth from the academic confines of the Yard; yets its boaring seems to have been quite missed in the editorial entitled "Murder by Statistics," which appeared in Wednesday's Crime. The thesis of this editorial, which has been several times sponsored by Boston and other papers upon hearing of the system of marking under which the percentage of men altaining the various grades is predetermined is that such predestination is both "unfair" and "unjust." They...
...little mining town of Herrin aroused the whole U. S., not many years since, with the story of a mining massacre perpetrated in the course of a strike. Intermittently since then it has been the scene of strife and of murder, until the world has begun to wonder whether Herrin will not soon be as uninhabited as the table where the hie gingham dog and the onetime calico...
...trial in which the accused were convicted prisoners, the witnesses convicted prisoners, the spectators convicted prisoners, was held in a prison at Leningrad. The accused, 23 of them, were charged with attempting the murder of a prison mate whom they declared was an agent of the dread Cheka, or revolutionary tribunal...
SILENCE-A heedless melodrama with many flaws and an enormous amount of excitement. H. B. Warner is the hero crook who did not commit the murder...
...accomplices, Alejo Garcia and Francisco Ruiz, condemned to death for the murder, had not yet been executed...