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...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...
...Iron Gustave" Hartmann, cabby, who drove his ancient horse and cab on a "goodwill" jaunt to Paris (TIME,, June 18) returned to Berlin last week, lolling in a taxicab presented to him by Opel Motor Co. Old friends of horsey days, vexed, were restrained by police from mobbing...
...liquor supply is a clause providing that liquor may not be warehoused by the makers, that it must be kept in transit. Commercial enterprise has kept this bung out. Scores of warehouses line the Ontario shoreline and load up U. S. rum-runners. Diplomatic pressure, probably, was what drove the bung in last week, when the Ontario Liquor Control Board seized $5,000,000 of beer and whiskies in two warehouses at Windsor. Thirty other storage plants with $50,000,000 worth of goods were threatened...
...told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
...able district attorney; the other is an unfortunate youth on trial for the murder of his mistress. The outcome of the trial shall remain a secret in these pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette, is a game of chance...