Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro was lynched last week, two men were arrested charged with " taking into the County Jail implements for use in releasing a prisoner charged with a felony." Later a grand jury returned five indictments against leaders of the lynching mob. It was not reported whether they were indicted for murder or for jail delivery...
...take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast-and Druro, who failed to recognize her in her knickerbockers, was on the way to seeing purple elephants. So she rescued him, after many struggles and an incidental murder-her sex was finally discovered and the mystery of her past cleared up satisfactorily -and she and Druro, presumably, settled happily down to life on the veldt together. A frankly melodramatic story, cleanly and competently written, with none of the laborious " ashes of passion " touch one has met in some...
...ruffled silk ancestry in the French Court. His eye fell on the " Southern Stuff" label and jumped his story a few hundred years. He injected a shot of chorus girls in' a Southern mansion and three fingers of " Poor White " mountain life. He stirred in a murder and falsely accused his hero. A hot bit from the "Forest Fire" cruet and a dash of "Blood Hounds" finished the job. Shaking it up with a few negligible actors, he presented it to the stockholders...
...Supreme Court of North Carolina has upheld a conviction for murder in the second degree in a case apparently unparalleled in criminal history...
...Weil is one of those pictures where four reels go by and the audience is about ready to put on its bonnet and rubbers to go home when the hero is falsely accused of murder. Four more reels are necessary sary to drag him to prison and offer him opportunity for heaving, tearing and gnashing the chest, the hair and the teeth, respectively. When about half the play is junked, the remainder may prove interesting...