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...Bischoff was about to bring framing charges when she was murdered.* A week before the McLaughlin indictment, two of his onetime colleagues on the vice squad were found guilty of assault. Last September they entered the home of a Mrs. Genevieve Potocki, ordered a round of drinks, beat and bit Mrs. Potocki and a companion, then charged the two women with running a disorderly establishment. The trial of another vice squad member ended last week with his acquittal. He was Walter V. Ambraz, who testified that Mrs. Rosa H. Ricchebuono, a plump French-Canadian woman who said...
...stir," nor $1,000 "a grand" or use any of the rest of the argot of the underworld we now know. Rather we may expect "Chappie" to replace "Cul" as a title of address and "loot" to take the place of "swag." All of which will be quite a bit pleasanter to the car, we admit, but quite outre. New Haven Register...
...have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good and his manners, though slightly formal, better than those of most U. S. players. Perhaps because he took it all a bit grimly, however, Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks did not win. A good sport, he conceded a one-yard putt on the last green which gave hole and match to his able opponent, one J. R. Abercrombie. Then he hurried off to meet Mary Pickford who was just arriving in England...
This was a bit hard on Austrian Schober. Henderson of Glasgow speaks English that is Scotch...
...Duguid. He was also planning something else. Said he: "When I have finished my film I ... shall find that man and I shall take him aside and I shall shoot him in the stomach. That should give him a good 30 hours to remember my brother. Justice? Not a bit. Revenge...