Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paunchy Mr. Thompson was scheduled to be inaugurated with pomp on April 18. He was reported to have offered the job of press agent of his administration to Maurine Watkins, authoress of the sensational, successful murder play, Chicago, now playing in Manhattan...
...Mexico City the U. S. Embassy made formal protest last week to the Mexican Government at the murder in Mexico during the past month of three U. S. citizens: George Holmes, slain in the state of Chihuahua; Edgar M. Wilkins, killed in Jalisco; and Frederick C. Combs who was done to death in Sonora...
...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...Delight, Ark., last week, masked men flogged, kicked, pummeled, prodded, left inert one George Hewitt, 29, lately acquitted of a murder. Mr. Hewitt was requested to leave Delight...
...shack in the oil field area houses the fruition of the financier's plot, the murder of the innocent by rebel-general De Castro (Felix Krembs). "President Parkman's son killed," shriek press headlines, cinema reels, radio announcers. The cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...