Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mexico. The Rosalie Evans murder case (TIME, Aug. 11 et seq.) was opened at Mexico City, after a two-months delay due to difficulties in obtaining counsel for the defense...
...have cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used his own money and wanted the pictures for his own enjoyment alone. "Assassin," - "degenerate," "buffoon...
...this effect spoke Clarence Darrow, famed defender, who crowned his unique legal reputation by emerging victorious in a recent Chicago murder trial. He was speaking against Judge A. J. Talley in a public debate on capital punishment conducted in the Manhattan Opera House, Manhattan, under the auspices of the League for Public Discussion. Said...
...Fake. Frederick Lonsdale is known locally for neat and witty social comedy (Spring Cleaning; Aren't We All?); A. H. Woods for bedrooms; and Godfrey Tearle because he is brother, to Conway, famd cinema actor. Together these three have rolled up a murder in a plain wrapper and presented it to the public. When the wrappings were ripped off the opening night, the public gratitude was only soso...
...narrative argues that the murder is admissible because the strong, silent one had no selfish motive. The fake is the father. As played by the suavely English Mr. Tearle and by Orlando Daly, these parts protrude above the pleasant capabilities of a British cast...