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Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the...
Long before 17-year-old William Heirens confessed, he was convicted of three brutal murders by Chicago's dailies (TIME, July 29). Last week, when he made it official, they lavished page after page on his confession and his "reenactment" of his crimes. Lest anybody forget who had scooped...
*A few exceptions missed by the Tribune in its head-down dash through history: 1) the Lindbergh kidnapping case, where Bruno Richard Hauptmann was named before confession or indictment; 2) the murder of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon by Robert Irwin; 3) many another murder where witnesses have been able to...
...Confessional Clichés. As a running news story, it was short on facts. Fingerprints seemed to tie 17-year-old Collegian William George Heirens to the brutal Suzanne Degnan murder, perhaps to a couple of others. When word got around that he had talked (after an injection of sodium pentothal), headline writers" decided it was a confession, dusted off their favorite cliches about "truth serums...