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...autobiography. Twenty-three times has he been visited by his loyal, horse-faced wife Anna, who, affecting more modish dress since the Flemington trial, has traveled 6,000 miles, collected $8,300 for her husband's defense. Towheaded Baby Mannfried, an occasional visitor to his father's cell in Flemington, has not been admitted to the death house. Hauptmann's chief counsel has seen his client on an average of once a week. Since the trial, Attorney C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington has assumed command of the defense staff in place of beefy, bumbling Edward J. Reilly...
Secretly the deputy sheriffs of Contra Costa County rigged up a loudspeaker in the drawer of a bureau in Anacleto's cell with direct telephone communication to the next room. A bright floodlight was turned on Anacleto to keep him from sleeping. Then Deputy Ted Christ, who speaks Spanish, went to work in the next room...
...yearly grist of sordid British murderers and that misguided Irish patriot Sir Roger Casement. The Acid Drop also corroded Clarence Hatry, greatest of British swindlers, whose gigantic frauds unsettled confidence in The City and hastened Depression (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Last week Super-Swindler Hatry sat in a cell from which he may emerge in 1944, and the shriveled 83-year-old form of the Acid Drop lay in its grave. Indomitable to the last, Mr. Justice Avory had gone for a chill walk during his Whitsuntide holiday. That night an old friend, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Baron...
...made a great deal of money in the stockmarket, took charge of Hearst's International News Photo Service. In the picture business Walter Howey shows his most surprising side. The books on his desk bear such titles as Solvents, Elements of Physical Chemistry, Colloidal Behavior, The Selenium Cell. Much of his time he spends on the seventh floor of the Mirror Building, behind a door marked "International Research Laboratories, Inc." There, with his staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual...
...Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves are caught, re-converted into light which registers the picture on a sensitized plate. Total...