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By 1919 he was signed with the "King of Comedy" Mack Sennet, appearing as a Keystone Cop and lauded as a "legitimate and screen player of international celebrity".

The family of Smith's victim, Elizabeth Sennet, called the execution "bittersweet," viewing it as one last act of justice for the woman, whose husband in 1988 hired someone who hired Smith and another person to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary, court records show.

While track and trace apps have had mixed reviews and success, localised neighbourhood apps that keep people informed about rubbish collection times or enable them to help a sick neighbour have soared in popularity - what Prof Sennet calls a new era of "neighbours responsible to strangers".

“He couldn’t understand what was going on,” said Sennet, “why everything went so fast, and why scenes were shot out of chronology.”

Eventually Huey Long, then the governor of Louisiana, “jumped into the breach,” berating Mississippi Gov. Martin Sennet Conner, who supported Newton Diehl Baker Jr., Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war: “You break the unit rule, you sonofabitch, and I’ll go into Mississippi and break you.”