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...matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
Bail was set at the sum-enormous for Mallorca-of 10,000 pesetas ($1,175) per prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...
...careless checking of bond transactions; in Milwaukee. Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand (hanging); near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons...
Died. Paul B. King, 38, Wartime aviation captain, son of Utah's Senator William Henry King; when he fell/jumped from the seventh floor of Washington's Blackstone Hotel. A nervous breakdown six months ago forced Captain King to quit test piloting at Langley Field, Va., enter a sanitarium which he left last fortnight...
...Hanussen (born Steinschneider) was found in a wood near Bayreuth last week. Herr Hanussen was one of Europe's best known fortunetellers; he predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler several years ago. Three weeks ago he suddenly quit a vaudeville engagement in Berlin "because of an impending nervous breakdown...