Word: robber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then began the hunt. From witnesses, artists drew a composite picture of the robber. Eight months after the robbery, police finally nabbed a prime suspect: a 57-year-old professional painter named Sadamichi Hirasawa. Hirasawa first admitted his guilt, then retracted the confession. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang...
Adela proudly notes that Rogers was the first trial lawyer to make extensive use of props. To demonstrate the direction of a bullet that had killed a man, Rogers brought the dead man's small intestines into court. "Ghoul, grave robber!" shouted the prosecutor, but Rogers won the case. In a morals case, police witnesses claimed they had watched the crime through holes in a door. Rogers lugged the door into court. He placed the defendant behind the door, put a girl on his lap, and invited judge and jury to peep through the door. None of them could...
...drinking them under the table). Wilde wrote back from Missouri: "Outside my window about a quarter of a mile to the west there stands a little yellow house, with a green paling, and a crowd of people pulling it all down. It is the house of the great train-robber and murderer, Jesse James, who was shot by his pal last week, and the people are relic-hunters. The Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes...
...right fist punches the air, a forefinger lashes out, his face flushes furiously beneath his silver hair. Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth. all atremble, stammers slightly and the savage words about his opponent spill out: "My family on both sides were here long before those robber barons of his showed up. His family sold out their interests in Lackawanna County and then moved out their money . . . This man who claims to be a gentleman . . . this Little Lord Fauntleroy . . . this Ivy League Dickie Nixon . . . this man who seeks on-the-job training...
Milestones are milestones, but this is incredible. Confederate General James Longstreet must have been a true cradle robber to leave a widow [May 11] who lived to see the war centennial...