Word: murders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after, a pale, lanky rural school superintendent, E. Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once, on the trial date, pneumonia reprieved him. Last week the "love-bomb" trial began. From Chicago flew 26-year-old Mary...
...policewoman translator at the Doctor's desk, soon had a list of eight suspects. At week's end they were hunting a heavily muscled young third-rate prize fighter called "Swede," had traced him to a Florida-bound bus. All the paraphernalia of an international murder mystery surrounded the case: only the motive was missing...
Almost as if it wanted the case closed quickly, Berlin sent word that "authorized sources" considered the crime personal, not political. Sniped Walter Winchell: "The murder . . . will be traced to the jealousy of his dearest Roehm mate...
Died. Henry Stevens, 70, one of the acquitted defendants in the unsolved, tabloid-trumped-up Hall-Mills murder case (1926); of heart disease; in Lavalette, N. J. Two co-defendants survive him : his sister Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered minister, and his lethargic brother Willie, who made a monkey out of cross-examining Attorney Alexander Simpson...
...script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst. But the spontaneity seems a little forced, the pace, jokes and charm a little grimly predetermined...