Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...
...State, contending that Franklin was burned alive, exhibited as the corpus delicti a boxful of charred bones. Because a temple bone had inadvertently been mislaid a State health officer would not swear that the remains were human. The live "Connie Franklin" said that on the night of the "murder" he had started out with Tiller. He explained: "I fell off my mule-had a few too many swigs-and cut my haid. Next day I went away. That's all they was to it." Some witnesses felt that he looked "a lot like Connie." The girl's avowal...
...jury acquitted the four hillmen of murder. Many a proud Arkansan, indignant at the publicity given such dark doings in the Ozarks, protested widely that they were not typical of their State, cited big city bombings and murder as equally fearful. The acquittal at Mountain View was hailed as a vindication for Arkansas...
...trade portal between the U. S. and Mexico is Laredo," Tex. Last week the portal was slammed shut by the removal of the Mexican consulate. Reason: Laredo's District Attorney John A. Vails had attempted to arrest General Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime President of Mexico, on a 1922 murder conspiracy charge. Laredo shopkeepers, hard hit by the loss of Mexican trade, appealed to Governor Dan Moody who, in turn, appealed to Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson...
...know how many literary offspring have been produced by the prolific pen of Author Edgar Wallace; it is said that he has lost count. Here is another one to confuse his reckoning and to delight Wallace fans, detective story addicts. The Crimson Circle, a highly efficient criminal organization, piles murder on mysterious murder until all London is terrorized. Scotland Yard, as usual, gets it in the neck, but this time gives as good as it gets. Author Wallace strews his text with clues, but he is also an adept with red herrings. When the villain is finally unmasked, there...