Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Thormann and Dr. Grandel, charged with plotting the murder of General von Seeckt (TIME, Jan. 28), were acquitted by a jury which stated that evidence of a serious con-spiracy was nonexistent. The German press, excepting the Nationalist journals, condemned the verdict. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said that it "must cause painful amazement throughout the world." The year 1923 was written off the books of German banks with a sigh- of relief. No dividends were voted and many annual statements appeared with merely technical balanced debits and credits. The banks were stated, however, to be in good shape; since...
Prelate Chancellor Seipel of Austria was seriously but not dangerously wounded by a murder-minded man as he walked down the platform of the Sudbahnhof at Vienna...
...making a friendly call." She then took out her revolver, fired one shot. M. Calmette fell to the ground. Mme. Caillaux then fired the remaining four shots, only one missed. The anger of the Parisiens was aroused. Caillaux was repeatedly attacked by furious mobs and the day following the murder he resigned...
Despite the strongest chain of evidence of premeditated murder, Mme. Caillaux was acquitted by a jury, after a sensational trial?apparently upon the novel ground that if the doctors called in to attend Calmette had given him the proper treatment he would not have died. Meanwhile, Joseph Caillaux had stood for reëlection and was once more a Deputy in Paris...
...York Times (in headline): "J. K. MITCHELL HOME. MAN WHOSE NAME FIGURED IN DOROTHY KING MURDER CASE RETURNS...