Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneventful day when only six people are killed in automobile accidents; but when six convicts are sentenced to death in Illinois for the murder of one man it is a historic moment...
Early in October, their trial began. It took five weeks to choose a jury who would agree either to hang all six men for one murder, or declare all of them "not guilty." The high light of the trial was the appearance of young Leopold, who said: "I am afraid I shall have to be excused from answering since I am an inmate and have a very long term [life and 99 years] to serve, and it would be contrary to the ethics of the institution for me to testify...
This trial which has stirred the commonwealth of New Jersey to the very depths has sent state's attorney Boobson and his under officers into the mazes of the most amazing murder and divorce trial combined in the history of New Jersey...
...Garden. It mattered little to Chicagoans that her voice was some times cloudy, sometimes thin, that tones were tossed this way and that, sometimes too negligible to be tones at all. That evening she was no prima donna. She was Katiusha, loveliest of peasant girls, wrongly accused of the murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered a pack to follow a fellow convict into Siberia. Tristan and Isolde, laid...
Died. Roscoe Brunner, until recently Chairman of the great chemical firm of Brunner Mond & Co.; at Green Cottage, Roehampton, Eng., country house of his son-in-law Prince Ferdinand of Liechtentein; after murdering his own wife and then shooting himself. Allegedly the cause of this murder-suicide was ill health aggravated by business worries...