Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week at Florence, Ariz., four Chinamen were executed (hanged) together for the murder of another Chinaman...
...Remus and Dodge were paramours, Remus said. So, the morning Mrs. Remus started for court to press her divorce suit, George Remus drove alongside her car in a Cincinnati park, chased her across the grass, shot her dead. He was allowed to act as his own lawyer in his murder trial. The trial became a disorderly farce. The jury acquitted him on the ground of temporary insanity. Committed to the asylum, Remus successfully appealed in Allen County for a writ of habeas corpus. What freed him finally last week was the Ohio Supreme Court's four-to-three decision...
...Negro named Robert Powell. Some one shot. Davis shot too, then dropped, wounded mortally. Powell, wounded in the abdomen, crept home to bed. But he was found and with him a discharged revolver. He denied shooting Detective Davis. He was arrested, removed to a hospital, charged with murder...
Serbia was the traditional Land of Assassinations. Most famed: the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Serajevo, the prelude to the World War. Most atrocious: the murder in their royal night clothes of King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia in 1903 by Serbian officers in the pay of Imperial Austria. Last week it seemed that although small Serbia no longer exists, having become large Jugoslavia, there has been a throwback to old-style Serbian assassination at Belgrade...
...Drag Net. A city gang leader is on trial for murder. A stoolpigeon takes the stand to testify against him. In a hotel room opposite the courtroom, a man is toying with a golf club; good-naturedly, he steps to the window, picks up a rifle, shoots the stoolpigeon. That is the beginning of a lusty underworld melodrama written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime reporter for the New York World, produced by Paramount, acted by George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell...