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Long had Senator Thaddeus Horatius? Caraway of Arkansas been bothered with a stone in the kidney. Fortnight ago he entered St. Vincent's Infirmary at Little Rock to have it cut out. Last week he was convalescing comfortably after the operation when an old friend, with a jug of cider, called on him at the hospital...
Without the aid of a "good alibi," and near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only...
...went to his Acra, N. Y., country place where he planned to run Greene County's big bootlegging business. This ambition led to his indictment, fortnight ago, for torturing a Greene County truck driver who would not tell Diamond and another hoodlum where he was taking a load of cider (TIME, May 4). Three days later came the second attempt on Gangster Diamond's life...
Grover Parks, a Cairo, N. Y. truckman, told the District Attorney that Gangster Diamond and his bodyguard, Jack Dalton, had stopped him as he was driving a truckload of hard cider along a deserted road fortnight ago. Because he would not tell where the cider (from which apple-jack is made) was going, Truckman Parks said the city hoodlums beat him, tied him to a tree, burned the soles of his feet with matches...
...Teetotalers but musical, the Snowdens recently entertained Feodor Chaliapin who, they had heard, insists upon champagne. They gave him sparkling soft cider in champagne glasses. Many British Budget speeches, including those of Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, have been made on whiskey & soda...