Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual triumph of the Master Mind of today...
...Theatre on Monday night, attempts to follow the "thriller" pathway of such as "The Thirteenth Chair," "The Crimson Alibl," or "The Ouija Board." But the standard of these plays is a difficult one to maintain, and "The Sign on the Door" does not reach it. Instead, we have a murder story of rather clumsy construction, which has for its saving feature the admirable acting of Marjorie Rambeau and practically all the others in the cast...
...namely, John White Webster 1811, Ewing Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University. This gentleman in his time was one of the most respected men of learning in New England. But this genial doctor, this cultured scientist, this popular society man came to an untimely end because he murdered a creditor who had hounded him too mercilessly. Whether Mr. Ellis considers him a failure because he committed the murder or because he was unable to hide his guilt, we cannot say; but it was probably for the first reason...
...events Dr. Webster, having incurred debts with one Dr. Parkman and, having been unable to trick that gentleman with any great success, decided that the best way out of the difficulty would be to murder him. So he invited him to his laboratory and, when they were alone, disposed of him. Knowing that if he could entirely dispose of the body he could not under any circumstances be accused of murder, he summoned all his knowledge of chemistry to destroy it. He dismembered it and he boiled it and he treated it with acids until finally it was entirely disintegrated...
...same time it is noticeable that the Irish cause has not been very much raised in the public esteem by the events of the last few months. The stories of cattle-running outrage, and murder in Ireland may not all be true some of them, as the Irish leaders claim, may have been inspired by sources hostile to Ireland's freedom. But it is an ancient proverb that where there is such a prodigious cloud of smoke, there is sure to be a certain amount of fire. The reports from Ireland do not seem to indicate that the Irish people...