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...morning in Mexico City, Captain Rodriguez was awakened by a Mexican cop. "I have not broken your laws. You cannot send me back to Spain," protested Rodriguez. "We are doing nothing of the sort," replied the cop. "We are merely expelling you from Mexico as an undesirable and shipping you to Cuba." In Cuba, which does have an extradition treaty with Spain, Rodriguez found himself in jail for illegal entry. He sat there while Mexico waited for its end of the bargain to be satisfied...
...dawn one day in 1943, two policemen chased a stolen car through Petersburg, Va. and forced it into a ditch. In the wreck they found two soldiers, both AWOL. One cop stayed behind guarding them; the other, R. B. Hatchell, set off in pursuit of the driver, who had run away. Half an hour later two shots rang out; Hatchell's body was found nearby...
...pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting last March with moonfaced, heavy-handed Anthony Strollo-prisonbound Joe Adonis' successor in the Jersey rackets. For reasons never explained, Entertainer Phil Regan, an ex-policeman known as the "Singing Cop," furnished them his room in Manhattan's midtown Warwick Hotel for the rendezvous. Mayor Kenny denied the whole business before the grand jury. But six days later he admitted all. He had dealt with Strollo after all, but he had only gone to see Strollo for civic good...
...Havana last week the word was passed: Christmas Eve was H-hour for the newest plot to unseat Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. Sailors patrolling the waterfront armed themselves with machine guns, the National Police stepped up its incessant searching of passing cars. But it took a small-town cop in Westchester County, N.Y. to blow the whistle on the plot...
...always in such stories, the agent of law & order, the unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...