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...blocks of all automatic pistols, such as the Colt employed by Sacco, are filed by hand, each gun leaves a characteristic cartridge impression which can be identified "as accurately as a finger-print." Sharp-eyed police picked up a cartridge near the scene of the crime that bore the "fingerprint" of Sacco's gun block. Sacco not only was found with the weapon on his person but admitted owning it for a long time, stating that he had taken it from home just "to keep the children from playing with it." This evidence, not properly stressed at the trial, undoubtedly...
Those who chiefly bore the great responsibility last week were the seven Chief Delegates of the Big Seven powers at the Geneva Conference. Of these the Chief British Delegate, Sir John Simon, was in London, hastily summoned by the Japanese crisis; and the Chief French Delegate, André Tardieu, was in Paris, hastily summoned by the French Cabinet crisis. The Chief German Delegate, Heinrich Brüning, was in Berlin; and the Chief U. S. Delegate, Henry Lewis Stimson, was in Washington. The acting Chief U. S. Delegate, Hugh Simons Gibson, was not only in bed with a bad cold...
...airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that nothing deserves to be worshipped but Allah, Allah . . . that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, Allah...
Last week a British Royal Commission headed by Lord Askwith (not Asquith) released in London a report which absolved the Maltese clergy, then administered a stinging, personal rebuke to Lord Strickland, whose mother was a Maltese and bore him in Malta...
Secretly special agents gathered evidence in Italy, France, Britain, Germany for five years. Even in New York polite young men dug up oldtime barkeeps, went from speakeasy to speakeasy writing down professional opinions. Last week these labors bore fruit when the Supreme Court of Appeals of Turin decreed that in future no Italian barman could sell or manufacture a drink known as a Martini cocktail unless it was confected from Martini & Rossi vermouth...