Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Scott is dead. He was put to death by the premeditated violence of yokels who believed in their gross way that they were maintaining the honor of the race that bred them. What they did, some people call murder; others, lynching...
...Alaska a United States Deputy Marshal took an Indian accused of murder by sled across country from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks. En route the marshal was stricken with appendicitis. The Indian placed his captor on the sled and mushed with him the remainding 100 miles to a hospital...
Britain. Conservatives, Liberals and nonradical labor condemn the execution as an act of cold blooded murder. The radicals blame the Government for causing the death of the prelate by refusing to recognize Russia. There is some talk of breaking commercial relations off and recalling the British Mission...
...that cheap reading is a cure for hysteria, for the great mass of people are probably irremediably twisted and warped emotionally by these complexes anyway, but it is rendered less intense and harmful. In fact, in a later essay Shaw has admitted that if the public appetite for murder, cruelty, romantic love and heroics were not stupefied from time to time by these substitutes we should all be subject to relapses into primitive savagery...
Following the acquittal of six more defendants charged with murder in connection with the Herrin massacre last summer, the court (at Marion, 111.) announced that all the indictments against the untried defendants would be quashed. This virtually marks the end of the Herrin episode...