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...gravid mother, goes back & back to Joe Christmas' beginnings. Because he was a bastard with Negro blood in him. little Joe had a hard time from the start. His mad grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they got him for the Burden killing his grandfather caught up with him again, went home happy when he had seen Joe's bullet-torn body...
Officials of Travelers Insurance Co. were disturbed last week. News was out that an unknown policy holder had threatened to commit suicide unless the company granted him a loan equal to one-third the face value of his policy. Warning the company that his policy was between $25,000 an'' $200,000, the holder directed Travelers to reply through the public notice column of the New York Times with the message: "Status?Proposal and conditions accepted. Signed: Zelevart." Though "Status" represented himself as a man who had frequently borrowed and paid off much larger sums but who had fallen...
Precisely why did the Promethée sink? Before this could possibly be known rumors grew that some clumsy seaman had opened the diving valves by accident. Another rumor had Lieut, du Mesnil commit suicide after he was picked up with six lucky survivors by a fishing smack. Actually the Lieutenant announced himself at the disposal of the usual naval board of inquiry. "Before realizing what had happened," he told reporters, "I was swimming for my life...
Charged with helping her mother, Baroness von Dueben, to commit suicide, Mrs. Else Wille Bang pleaded in Copenhagen that the Baroness was suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...
...upper-crust family poverty-stricken in Republican Germany, yearns to do something to save his suffering post-War world. Member of a revolutionary society, he connives at plots to assassinate the Minister to whom Germany's great depression is attributed. When the plots fail Joachim determines to commit the murder himself...