Word: stoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HENRY STONER...
...Warmed somewhat to glacial Sir John Simon, long unpopular when Foreign Secretary, as his first important act in his new job of Home Secretary proved to be a reprieve for the popular "Rats' Murderer," George Percy Stoner (TIME, April 22; June...
Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury that she soon committed suicide while 300,000 English signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal...
Ballot-wise, the House of Commons buzzed with approval last week as Home Secretary Sir John Simon decreed a 20-year jail sentence for Rats's murderer, with possibility of earlier release for good conduct. In gushing editorials Britons were reminded that at the worst Stoner will be only 38 when released "with a full life before...
...jury, after 53 minutes, dutifully found Adulteress Rattenbury innocent and Dupe Stoner guilty last week of the murder of "Rats," she being promptly set free and he sentenced to hang. "I am glad she has been spared!" cried Murderer Stoner...