Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...
...mother in this play poisons her daughter who is violently, permanently insane. "I have killed her," she stubbornly cries, although the mummer jury considers the murder kindly and exonerates her of crime. Then she enters a sanatorium to nurse the psychopathic children of other people towards a semblance of sanity...
Before we leave this subject of crime we wish to suggest that the authorities leave such petty matters is murder and theft for a while and concentrate their effort on the suppression of those criminals who have something fundamentally bad about them. For murderers can eustly be cured with a few yards of hemp, but those crimes of which we speak strike far deeper into the natures of their perpetrators. Among the proscribed we should like to place; those he men who go around these zero mornings without coats: people who stay up all night before an examination; people...
...Suicide ? It seemed so, but who could imagine a man like Raoul taking his own life. . . . Murder? That seemed more likely, said friends of his who, like most young Frenchmen, had read the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. But the police said no to both hypotheses. What had happened was quite simple, they said. Raoul La Chapelle had dressed for the feête, had climbed up on the stool to see himself full length in the glass. Standing so, he had taken hold of the grips, connected to elastic cords, on which he did his daily exercises...
...save the executioner a job on you." Robert Elliott received the Negro, adjusted electrodes in the slit trouser leg, saw the straps buckled, turned on the current. The Negro twitched furiously for a moment, then sat quite still. Two more Negroes, condemned with the first for the murder of a watchman during a robbery, and betrayed by him to the police, followed. His day's work done, Robert Elliott went...