Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...
Last week, after four days of hearing the evidence, 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury found the steward guilty of murder. Mr. Justice Hilbery donned the black cap. Did Camb have anything to say before he was sentenced? "My Lord," replied Camb coolly, "at the beginning of this case ... I pleaded not guilty. I repeat that statement now. That...
Bluestone presented a selection from Richard Wright's "Native Son," in which Mr. Max attacks the cruelty of the white race which has forced Thomas into committing a murder. Sparer took excerpts from the Douglas speech in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate from Robert Sherwood's play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." Lincoln's speech in the debate was given by MacNutt, who followed Sparer on the stage...
...preventive criminology that he became a leader of the pre-revolutionary Socialists whom he was assigned to watch. He betrayed each side to the other, not once or twice, but day in & day out over nearly 20 years. He sent his revolutionary comrades to Siberia and organized the murder of several Czarist bigwigs. Where did his real sympathies lie? Probably with Azef. He managed to get out of the country and lived out his days in Germany, peacefully playing the stockmarket and horsing around at bourgeois seaside resorts (see cut). Azef was the living transition between the Czar...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...