Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nobody relishes a good murder trial more than the British public, and British murderers have responded by exhibiting a gory ingenuity that few practitioners of other nationalities can match. One 1949 classic that gripped all Britain involved a man who did in nine people over a period of years, pausing each time to sip a wineglass of warm blood before dissolving the body in a vat of sulphuric acid. Another British murderer, convicted in 1953, consummated his frequent love affairs by strangling his partners and hanging their bodies behind the kitchen wall...
...story that Mrs. Knight had been taken suddenly ill one night and died in agony before she could summon a doctor. In panic, said Mrs. Harvey, she had dragged the corpse into the closet; she had collected the money only because she feared she would be accused of murder if the death were discovered. The prosecution's case hung like a thread on the ligature around the mummy's neck...
...rope." Snapped Rankin: "And you call yourself an expert?" With that, Clift fainted dead away on the witness stand. The government's case collapsed with him. After the adjournment, Britain's embarrassed Solicitor General, Sir Jocelyn Simon, rose with a prosecutor's motion that the murder charge be quashed. "I agree entirely," said the judge, Mr. Justice Edmund Davies...
Shocked officials summoned three doctors as witnesses, urged a U.A.R. diplomat to come and see for himself the genuineness of the suicide. But Cairo now had another tune to play. Nasser's radio hurled charges of murder, suggesting that King Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass...
...replied that it "contributes more to economic development of other countries than any other government in the world . . ." To his complaint that the U.S. shelters war criminals, it answered that great numbers have indeed fled Castro's Cuba, but "they do not enjoy protection against criminal charges of murder or any other extraditable crime...