Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head of horses from the President of the Bank of China. Feng was further charged with the murder of two Christian representatives...
...composed mostly of communications. One letter tells the story of Paul Borgen, arrested in Los Angeles (weighing 160 pounds) and released 65 days later, without trial (weighing 120 pounds). "As a result of sleeping on a damp steel floor" he died 20 days later. "We call it outright murder. . . . The funeral was attended by 200 fellow workers. . . . Pictures of the floral pieces were taken in the chapel and later we took a photograph of Fellow Worker Paul Borgen himself in his casket. We expect to make picture postal cards and have them sold all over the country " to raise...
Within a fortnight Illinois and New York have each seen a woman convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The extreme rarity of such occurrences is apparent if it is realized that the former state, in which Cook County alone (according to the report of the investigating committee of the American Bar Association) has more crimes than the entire Dominion of Canada, has never executed a woman. The two sentences come a few months after the infliction of the death penalty in England, and it is noteworthy that public sentiment does not appear to protest...
...following a note from Lieutenant Colonel Vyx, representing the Entente, the power of Government was seized by the proletariat, and Karolyi resigned the Presidency of the Republic. "I preferred this sacrifice to assuming the cheap martyrdom of letting them arrest me, because I wanted to avoid bloodshed and mass murder in the streets of Budapest, to spare the country from the worst horrors of civil war"* Nevertheless much blood was spilled. It is significant that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book on the revolution. Karolyi...
...inch in diameter instead of the required three-quarters, and its loosening caused the accident. Previous attempts on De Lay's life, his many enemies in the beach district, and his usually minute care in plane maintenance lead friends to believe that this is the first airplane murder-more subtle than mediaeval poison...