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...York police, Flegenheimer himself had always been something of an enigma: a sloppy, unambitious burglar and package thief who became ruler of a great illegal beer distributing system in The Bronx, survived Repeal to go on into even more lucrative rackets. He was credited with running a waiters' union, a usurious system of small loans to the poor, several midtown night clubs in Manhattan. But the chief source of Flegenheimer's income was the policy game, the daily lottery which keeps most of Harlem's Negroes poor. Most players can bet only a few pennies...
Worst swamped of the nation's 84 judicial districts was Southern New York, embracing New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester and eight other counties. On June 30 it had more than 8,000 cases pending, as compared to 5.000 for the Southern District of California, next worst. A suit entered in Southern New York comes to trial about two years later. Last session, Congress gave Southern California, where cases wait 18 months, two additional Federal judges. Last week the Judges' Conference urged that the number of judges in its Southern New York District be upped from eight...
...Inescapable Evidence." In Trenton, New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals handed down its decision in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn...
Said Mrs. Anna Hauptmann in her Bronx flat: "I hope and pray the true facts will come out before they can do anything to my poor...
...over me. I kiss his ring. I touch his hand extended. I prolong the touch a second. I wish I might never have to wash my right hand again. It seemed to me the next most beautiful thing to seeing Jesus Christ Himself. The Pope passes to the Bronx lady to my right...