Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Embassy at Mexico City has brought the murder of Mrs. Evans to the notice of the Mexican Government and requested an immediate investigation with a view to the apprehension and punishment of the murderers, and the Mexican Government has replied that energetic measures were being taken to expedite the investigation and action for the apprehension of Mrs. Evans's assailants. The United States Embassy have suggested to the Mexican Government that it would be well to place a guard at Mrs. Evans's ranch to protect her house and its contents...
Ramsay MacDonald. In London, news of the Evans murder caused indignation. Questions were asked in Parliament. Premier MacDonald made the following statement...
...coming Winter's season, which opens on Nov. 5. The season will be inaugurated by a revival of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's grisly, melodious thriller. First produced in Milan, in 1876, it tells in music a terrible story of love, licit and illicit, revenge, suicide, murder, Inquisition horrors and Venetian gondoliers. Giorgio Polacco will conduct. Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and Antonio Cortis, a new Spanish tenor, will sing...
Born at Kinsman, Ohio, Apr. 18, 1857, Darrow, without much education, in his early twenties made his way to Chicago. There he studied law at night; became the partner of Governor Altgeld. His first important murder case was as defender, in the 90's, of the youth Prendergast, who had killed Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago. His client in this instance was hanged, but Darrow's defense was characterized by no less an observer than Brand Whitlock as the "most eloquent appeal for mercy that he had ever heard...
Then, in 1907, he became chief counsel for the defense in the trial of the labor leaders, "Big Bill" Haywood (now a fugitive in Russia), Moyer and Pettibone, indicted for the murder of ex-Governor Stuenenburg, of Idaho. He was brilliantly successful in this trial, and when, in April, 1911, the McNamara brothers were arrested for dynamiting the building of the Los Angeles Times and union labor the country over rallied to their support and raised a huge fund for their defense, it surprised nobody that Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, was retained as chief counsel...