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...personal columns of the New York Times. The kidnappers got the $50,000 from Mr. Rosenthal's mother, who is guardian of a fortune he may not have until he is 30. Then, he said, they gave him $10, let him out of a car in The Bronx, left him with a two-week growth of whiskers and an uncertain memory. After much patching together of diverse clues the police were able to track down in three cities four men (one a Negro) and a female octoroon, alleged members of a "ring." Taken with them were...
Among the scrubby frame stores and dwellings of East 133rd Street in the vast, tawdry northern sector of New York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this alley one afternoon last week drove the factory manager with a $4,619 payroll, guarded by a policeman. Two youths stepped up to the car with drawn automatic pistols. One covered the manager, forced him out of the car, took the payroll. The other sent a bullet through the policeman...
...Veterinary College in 1889. For 19 years he tended the ring bone and spavin of Brooklyn carriage horses, got in with the politically right people. In 1909 he was given the best horse doctor's job in the city: veterinary to the fire departments of Manhattan, Richmond and The Bronx. Had shrewd Dr. Doyle not divided his early years between the care of horses and the cultivation of politicians he might have been ruined when the Metropolitan fire departments were motorized. But Mayor Hylan made him Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau in 1918 at a salary...
...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Vincent Wood last week let a delivery-boy take her pedigreed black-&-white collie Frixie for an airing. Frixie ran away from the boy who, too frightened to report to Mrs. Wood, stayed in hiding. Four days later Frixie's body was found. Some fiend had beaten Frixie, poisoned him, thrown him on a fire, then put the charred body in a laundry sack, cast it into a gutter. Mr. Wood, a wholesale milliner, offered $50 reward for the fiend's capture...
...Bronx Beach pool, New York, the best U. S. women swimmers and divers congregated last week for the A. A. U. championships in a meet made especially important by its bearing on next year's Olympics. The swimmers raced at night, lashing silver lines of spray across a pool which arc-lights made shiny and black. Among the spectators were lifeguards from beaches nearby; parents of contestants; Gertrude Ederle who was amazed at Helene Madison and asked Georgia Coleman for an autograph signed "divingly yours...