Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After serving 28 years of a life term for murder, in the Joliet, (Ill.) penitentiary, Calogero Boscio, 65, asked for his freedom. Until he got to prison, he said, he had been under the impression that he was being held only as a witness...
...years, was nothing to arouse a Chicago police-court reporter, but it had its moments. Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross told how the destroyers' explosion had killed 44 British sailors, and had injured 42 more. Albania, he said, was guilty of acts that "amount to murder." Although there was evidence that the actual mining had been done by the Yugoslavs, Shawcross argued that Albania was responsible for what happened in her territorial waters. His star witness was a former Yugoslav naval officer, Karel Kovacic, who had seen mine-laden Yugoslav ships leave the Sibenik naval base...
Suspense (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). Murder in Black and White, with Edmund Gwenn...
...Peru, as in nine other Latin American countries, capital punishment has long been outlawed. The last Peruvian to suffer the death penalty was a bandit executed by a firing squad in Cajamarca 42 years ago. Last week the Peruvian military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...
William R. Polk '51 will witness tomorrow the opening of the Salonika trial for the murder of his brother, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent George Polk, in Salonika last...