Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
Married. Supreme Court Justice Townsend Scudder, 63, presiding Judge in the Snyder-Gray murder trial, investigator of the Queens (New York City) sewer scandal, potential Democratic candidate for the Governorship of New York; to Miss Alice Booth McCutcheon, 42, daughter of the late James McCutcheon, linen merchant, and founder of the Manhattan store of that name; at Greenwich, Conn...
...Patriot. A massive evening in the theatre awaits the curiosity seeker who hurries here for his entertainment. He will see eight scenes of Russian history roll by; uniformed in scarlet, green and white, majestic with the murder of a Tsar...
...love of his people at home and the power of Russia abroad, he dug his own grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...
INTERFERENCE?A very nice English family is suspected of a very effective murder. (TIME...