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...Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets." He wooed and quickly won Jessie, 16-year-old daughter of irascible Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. But the Senator objected to their marriage, so Frémont surveyed in Iowa before eloping with Jessie. Vexed though the Senator was, he forgave and made Frémont his willing tool to open up the vast West. The young couple were presented to President Tyler...
Died. Benjamin Purnell, 66, "King of the House of David," "Seventh Messenger announcing the Millennium"; at Benton Harbor, Mich., of pulmonary tuberculosis. He taught, as many before him had taught and still conscientiously teach, that the Bible foretells the exact date at which the Millennium will begin. As the "Seventh Messenger," he also taught, he would never die; nor would 143,999 others who believed in his Messianic pretentions. About his dead body last week his disciples sat, waiting for his resurrection-in vain...
There was a strange trial at Benton, Ill., last week. Three men- Charles Birger, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, gangsters all-were on trial for murder. The state claimed that they had paid Harry Thomasson, 19, and Elmo Thomasson, 17, $50 apiece to kill Mayor Joe Adams of West City, Ill., last winter (TIME, Feb. 21). The jury was chosen, the prosecution made its case, it was time for the defense to offer its testimony. But, one after the other, attorneys for Messrs. Birger, Newman and Hyland announced that their clients would not testify. Neither did they offer any other...
...BENTON GAYLE...
Director McConnell, a diminutive person of perpetual vigor, has put his players through 68 plays in six years. Some of his actors (Elmer Lehr, Russell Collins, Carl Benton Reid) have performed more than 650 times in some 50 roles, "an experience, incidentally," says Director McConnell, "which the trained European actor takes as a matter of course." At their Play House, alert Clevelanders see many a play, from Shakespeare to Shaw, invisible elsewhere...