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...outraged Londoner was confused. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered one wife. He poisoned her, then cut her in pieces and hid her in the cellar...
...Hungarian army officers. Conspirator Pavelitch was said to have sent the five men to France with forged passports to murder the King. Petrus Kalemen was to try in Marseilles, the others in Paris. Following confessions by Raitch and Posposil, French police picked up one Sylvester Mathy after he had hid for days in the Forest of Fontainebleau, living on roots & herbs. They sought three other suspects-a mysterious young girl known as Marie Vjoudroch whose duty was to carry suitcases of small arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because...
...stenographer at the State Capitol sued Governor Russell for seduction and ex-Governor Bilbo was called as a witness. Bilbo is no prude, but he did not want to be drawn into a friend's girl trouble. He hid out in a backwoods farm until Governor Russell was acquitted...
...strapped to him he bailed out from an airplane over Luxemburg one black night early in 1918. His mission was to discover whether the Germans were concentrating troops in the Grand Duchy for the great March offensive. He landed in a field, badly shaken. Groping in the dark he hid his parachute in a hedge, trudged 20 miles to his father's house, arriving just before dawn. Two of his three pigeons subsequently reached British G.H.Q. The message they bore was, in effect, no German concentration in Luxemburg. Steffen remained in hiding until the armistice when he was awarded...
...their first attempt at escape. After floundering all night in oozy mud they were glad to get back to their prison. Soon one of them was sent off with a note demanding ransom. The other three settled down to wait for rescue. When searching planes came over, the pirates hid themselves and their prisoners in the reeds or shifted their anchorage. One night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made little difference to them. As they picked up more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty...