Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory, when 50 or 500 men and women rush through the night and hang a man or woman, they all?50 or 500?become murderers or accessories to murder. But in practice, in the South, lynchers have not been judged guilty of anything, because Southern governments habitually neglect to locate them. Last week, however, the most important news from Georgia was that one Gaines Lastinger had been sentenced to life imprisonment. He is the twelfth of a midsummer's night mob of lynchers to be convicted by Georgia...
...hand in the gladiatorial fights. Not only, however, do we prefer the sublimated honors which a well practiced imagination can build up, but in the course of 2000 years or so we have become more delicate in our tastes. No longer does a good, old fashioned, out and out murder whet the public appetite; we must have infinite complications--simple enough to be comprehended, but spicy--everything from Pig Women to perjury. Even the "eternal triangle" which seemed as permanent as a Platonic idea, is losing its saver. Let us have more pepper in the sauce. Let us make each...
Again Evangelist J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., has been found not guilty of a criminal charge. Fourteen years ago he overcame prosecution for arson and then for perjury, after his Fort Worth Baptist church and parsonage had been burned. This time the charge was murder...
Fort Worth was top excited a community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped...
...vary its own fare, the World hired one Maurine Watkins, author of a play about murder-lust in Chicago's stockyard district, to write a delectable tidbit pretending to scorn Mrs. Browning because she had gone to court instead of killing Mr. Browning. The World's introduction : "... To become famous in Chicago the woman kills and kills and kills. Miss Watkins, investigating scientifically the road to fame in our own fair city, gives her conclusions below." Some conclusions : "In Chicago, you must shoot, not sue, your way to glory. Her front pages drip with blood, whereas New York...