Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally enough the Soviet oligarchy in Moscow were greatly incensed over the affair. They have accused all their numerous enemies of complicity in the shooting. It is perhaps unfortunate that the murder took place at a time when Britain had sent a stiff note to Russia and shortly after the shooting of Slogett, a clerk in the British Commercial Mission in Moscow, by the Soviet police. The event has complicated and enhanced the political importance of an otherwise regrettable but insignificant occurrence. Despite rumors of war and the bursts of indignation from Soviet Russia and the Communists of other countries...
...CLUE OF THE NEW PIN?Edgar Wallace?Small, Maynard ($1.90). Jesse Trasmere, an eccentric millionaire who made his money in China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes...
...Birmingham, Ala., the editor, the managing editor and a reporter of The Birmingham Post published an article telling that a man on trial for murder had also been indicted for flogging and kidnapping. Judge H. P. Heflin of the Circuit Court cited them for contempt of court, because their articles " prejudiced " the cause of the man on trial for murder...
...partial explanation has been offered. The great mass of people, whose lives are prosaic in the extreme, and who crave excitement to satisfy their natural impulses, find an outlet for their emotions in the reading of tales of murder and suicide. They find a kind of psychological relief in the death and mental anguish of others; and thus, perhaps, are kept from committing suicide themselves. Mental stimulation furnishes a sort of antitoxin to what is generally termed "the latent blood-lust of a morbid humanity...
There is, of course, no Statute of Limitations running in the case of murder, and a murderer may be required to have one trial at any time of his life...