Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuffed a dirty sponge into King's wound and it became infected. Casey was hanged by the vigilantes-and posthumously cleared by a court. Too late to help him, the Sacramento State Journal righted the miscarriage of justice, just for the record. It reported: JAMES CASEY INNOCENT OF MURDER. DEATH OF JAMES KING CAUSED BY DOCTORS...
Chief Combs was arrested for murder. After that, he posted bond and went back to his duties...
...tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from the republic in previous fighting. On top of everything else, there was disagreement over interim control of the republican army...
...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...
...Hamp Kendall, 71, of Caldwell County, N.C., who was mistakenly convicted of murder 42 years ago and served more than nine years before the mistake was discovered, wrote to Governor R. Gregg Cherry to complain of the legend on his "victim's" tombstone, which read: "Lawrence Nelson, robbed and murdered by Hamp Kendall." Said Kendall: "No damned man that is innocent would stand under this slanderous tombstone scandal right where he is trying to make an honest living." The Governor was sympathetic, but said he was powerless...