Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...body lacerated. Said he: "I think my wife is dead." Under the bed was a bloody hatchet. His theory: that two men had attacked her while he was out. In the next room a parrot squawked: "Don't, papa, don't!" Frank Yitkos confessed to the murder...
Barzor was scion of a rich Jewish family, prosperous and happy. His life was ruined when his young wife and child were killed in Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents. His attempt to murder Herod in revenge failed; by a series of lucky accidents he escaped into the desert to friendly Arabs. But he had become a man of fixed idea, and only bided his time to launch a rebellion against Herod and the eRomans who kept him in power. Then he met Rongus, a young Jew who had been sold into slavery by a mercenary uncle. Too high-spirited...
Your issue of Jan. 19, at p. 13, makes a false charge that Leo V. Brothers was being "framed" for the murder of Alfred Lingle as a means of winding up the mystery. You expressly charge that Brothers was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune; when considered with your other state- ments concerning this investigation, the charge necessarily also applies to Patrick Roche, Chief Investigator of the State's Attorney, and Charles F. Rathbun and James E. McShane, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of whom have been directly responsible for the conduct of the case...
TIME gladly prints this authoritative denial of a suspicion current in Chicago. In reporting the story originally, TIME said: "Offsetting the 'frame-up' theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had 'positively identified' Brothers as the 'big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye' who had shot Lin-gle." Last week, one month after his arrest, Leo V. Brothers had his first hearing in open court, mumbled "On the advice of my attorneys I stand mute." Under the law the judge thereupon directed that a plea...
Another recommendation: Strike "premeditated murder" from the list of old Palestine crimes, replace it by two new ones: "ordinary murder" and "man-slaughter...