Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey went back to Manhattan, his only hope to pin a murder indictment on Lepke, which would take precedence over Federal charges. It looked as if Frank Murphy was one up on Tom Dewey for the title of No. 1 U. S. crime-crusher...
...Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political influence, which Lincoln and Douglas were glad to curry. Only during the Mormon pogroms that culminated in Joseph Smith's murder by lynch mobs in Carthage, 111. in 1844, was polygamy added for the first time to the list of Mormon iniquities. The charge was true enough, Prophet Smith having secretly married 27 wives...
...When Prophet Smith's original wife, "Doubting" Emma, became suspicious of increasing recruits to a houseful of so-called foundling women, he sent her to St. Louis to buy supplies. After his murder Emma married a tavern keeper...
...Sing Sing (at 21), Buchalter developed from a small-time loft burglar into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges...
...them. But Puppet Cheng was shrewd, forceful, humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such a trump infuriated the Japanese. Much more so did the British refusal, on the ground of insufficient evidence, to hand over four men suspected of the murder. British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr considered the case more important than the comfort of British nationals in Tientsin, and so the Japanese declared the blockade...