Word: extortioners
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A little more than 100 years ago Jamie Brooke of Coombe Grove, England sailed off to work for the East India Co. When his wealthy father died Jamie bought what he called a yacht, stocked it with arms and set off pirateering for Borneo. Since he ended up as the...
THE SCARLET MESSENGER-Henry Holt-Crime Club ($2). Murder by knife, extortion by letter, intimidation by tonga bean bring Inspector Silver and Friend Collinson in & out of another mystery.
Thus unsuccessfully ended the elaborate attempt of Chicago and Federal police to trap John ("Jake the Barber") Factor's kidnappers who had audaciously demanded a payment of $50,000 in addition to the $50,000 they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in...
For nine years Andre Spada worked to make banditry a beautiful thing in Corsica. In 1922 he shot two policemen in the back, killed one. When a youth ran away with Spada's mistress, he murdered the boy's uncle and a woman cousin. Total murders: about twelve...
¶ To the $250,000 suit for defamation of character against Adman Bruce Barton by his onetime file clerk Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King (TIME, May 1): dismissal and award of $156 for costs to Mr. Barton in Manhattan Supreme Court. In jail on Barton's charges of attempted extortion...