Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning program period, which they plan and conduct. Another pupil doubted that the outlaw was a "Robin Hood" and, after investigating the deeds of the original hero of Sherwood Forest, a majority of the class agreed. The rest dissented so vigorously that it was decided to try Giuliano for murder, one of the Italian Government's charges against him. A judge, jury, prosecutor, defense attorney, defendant, etc. were appointed, and the class then took up the problem of what would constitute evidence in the case...
...spinelessly obeyed Rule 904 of the municipal Supreme Bench, which prohibited newspapers-and radio stations-from reporting a suspect's confession or past criminal record until they were introduced in court. The judges had put the British-style gag on the press in 1939, after a sensational murder case, in the belief that newspaper stories might deprive a defendant of an impartial trial...
...first case solved by Finnegan's campaign, but it would not be the last. At week's end, armed with another Sun-Times tip, police arrested a suspect who confessed to the June 1948 murder of Shoemaker John Onesto-Case...
Case No. 13 was the murder of 79-year-old Herman Engelhard, a miserly recluse worth $99,000. The hoodlums who broke into Engelhard's drab South Side apartment in April 1948 were counting on a big haul, but all they got was $12. Just the day before, Engelhard had deposited his cash in a bank. The maddened robbers beat Engelhard over the head with an iron pipe and left...
...convict and the girl whose life he may save never saw each other. The prisoner, 49, serving a life term for murder in New York State's Sing Sing prison, lay under guard in a ward in Ossining Hospital, on a hill overlooking the high-walled prison. The eight-year-old girl was in a private room in the same building. She was near death from leukemia, the cancer-like disease of the blood-making system for which no cure is known. Manhattan Hematologist Harry Wallerstein took the child to Ossining because he knew that prisoners there were willing...