Word: cullen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Murray and I murdered the woman alone," he shouted. "This was an act I am willing to pay for and I know I will burn. . . ." Cullen, the unsuccessful thief, sat mum throughout the trial. His life too was at stake, but his show of emotion was limited: a couple of times he sneezed a little...
Dirty Uncle Murray had squealed. He told how he had helped Cullen swipe a roll of adhesive tape from a 5?-&-10? store and buy some other odds & ends they might need in robbing Mrs. Reich...
They had needed a few dollars, so they had hocked Eli's overcoat. When the actual murder was committed, Uncle Murray was somewhere else, he said, but he put the finger on Eli and Cullen. "Eli felt a little sick," said dirty Uncle Murray...
...sometimes showed off, sometimes said such things as: "I am addicted to verbiage." But at one point he was almost noble. He tried to make a sacrifice by confessing the killing, thus clearing Madeline and even Cullen. He would have died, he said, if Madeline had known about it. He had done it-he and dirty Murray...
...jury was out five and a half hours. They decided to take the State's story, that Madeline had invited her friend Mrs. Susie Reich over to her hotel so that Eli and Cullen could pounce on her and rob her. When they filed in again, they found all three guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy for Madeline. Eli's girl forgot again about being a lady. She pounded the table and screamed: "Please . . . please, I didn't!" Eli wept: "You have crucified...