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...coffinmaker in him. He roamed the streets, took to dicing and card-sharping at a tender age. While still a schoolboy he became an adept with the girls. The bishop, who took a paternal interest in the lad, rescued him from such scrapes as seducing a nun in her cell, but when he got to grave-robbing Benedetto had to leave town. He turned up in Venice under an assumed name, roistered it gamily with a night-livered crew. One faithless wench got his tongue wagging too freely, and when they quarreled she turned him in to the sbirri. Even...
Crime's grisly Man of the Year was the German carpenter who in his death cell in Trenton, N. J. last week heard that Charles, Anne and Jon Lindbergh were in the act of becoming the Exiles of the Year...
...were they when threats died down as excitement over Bruno Richard Hauptmann's arrest and conviction diminished. Then came two deciding events. Last month New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman caused a fresh Press furor over Murderer Hauptmann by paying a midnight visit to his death cell, publicly reviving old doubts that the German carpenter was solely responsible for the Hopewell crime (TIME, Dec. 23). Promptly threats against Jon Lindbergh took on new volume and violence. Meantime the Lindberghs were thoroughly alarmed by an incident in Englewood. As Jon was being motored to his nursery school...
Because the higher courts are geared to corporation rather than racketeering law, Caridius' career is cut short at the peak. Suspected of being accessory to kidnapping and murder, he forfeits his newly-won seat in the Senate because he is convicted of falsifying his election expenses. In his cell at Atlanta Penitentiary he has the satisfaction of knowing that his wife has taken advantage of the wave of popular sympathy that follows his conviction, has been elected to the Senate in his stead...
...Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves: the book ends with Ishma in her prison cell hearing the thunder of proletarian feet rushing to release...