Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Dmitri Pavolvitch Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, co-assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; from Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Ilyinski, formerly Audrey Emery, inheritor of $6,000,000 from the leather fortune of Cincinnati's John Josiah Emery; in Bayonne, France...
Joseph Stalin went personally to Leningrad, supervised the grilling of Kirov's assassin, who was soon dead without a public trial, and ever since then the Dictator has been almost daily grilling and shooting prominent Russians, especially Communists (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante...
Died. Captain James Vallely, 83, detective; in Houston, Tex. In Buffalo, on the night of Sept. 6, 1901, Vallely was called from his office to the Temple of Music where President McKinley had just been shot. He found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...
...hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin of U. S. Consul General J. Theodore Marriner (TIME...
...assassin went to his death in Beirut, the flag-draped casket bearing the body of Consul Marriner was met with military honors in Boston harbor. From there it was taken to Marriner's home in Portland, Me., where three days later it was buried...