Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of Indians murdered their fellowmen last year. Few were arrested, none convicted-because legal evidence is difficult to procure when the ordinary man counts perjury a duty if it helps a friend or relative. In Delhi's dingy Sessions Court last week, a murder trial ended which demonstrated India's problem of crime & punishment...
...posse fanned out over the frozen countryside. The hunted convicts sought shelter. Werner Schwartzmiller, 35, who vas doing 40 years for a murder attempt, chose Laurence Oliver's farmhouse. There he held the Olivers at bay until plucky Mrs. Oliver, firmly clasping a claw hammer beneath a capacious apron, worked her way close enough to bash him on the head...
...special court passed the death sentence on U Saw, Burma's pro-Japanese nationalist leader, and eight accomplices, for plotting Aung San's murder...
...Murder in the Cathedral" by T. S. Eliot '10 last night was chosen by the Theatre Workshop for its spring production, president Jerome T. Kilty '50 announced...
First performed in the Canterbury Cathedral in 1936, the play was presented by the Dramatic Club the following year in the court of the Fogg Museum. It depicts the murder of Thomas a Becket in the twelfth country...