Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stimson called for a complete report from the Treasury Department, intimated that it might be made the subject of diplomatic representations to Canada. In it some officials thought they had a reverse of the I'm Alone case, talked of asking extradition of the criminals who had "attempted to murder" U. S. officers...
Patrolman White had fired five rounds from a sawed-off shotgun into the Virkula car. His defense: the machine did not stop when Patrolman Emil Servine held up the stop sign. White was lodged in the International Falls jail, charged first with manslaughter, then with murder. Safe there, he made no great effort to raise his $5,000 bail. The little town's citizenry seethed with indignation against White and "the system" he represented. Banding together they wrote a public protest to President Hoover which concluded: "In our utter helplessness, terror and distraction, we are at last resorting...
...Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff...
...Studio Murder Mystery (Paramount). You know the leading man is going to be murdered because each member of the cast has a good reason for killing him and because you have read the title. This part of the picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow...
...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...