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...survivors who could stand. Men were screaming hour after hour. Doctors scrambled among the wreckage over boulders and among hastily rigged stretchers with hypodermics of morphine. At the official count 55 men were reported dead, 223 seriously injured. Quick to reach the scene was the Legion's Inspector, General Paul Rollet...
...title "Katzenjammer Kids." Dirks was forced to change the name to "Hans & Fritz," during the War to "The Captain & the Kids." Based on some youngsters familiar to Germans in the famed drawings of Cartoonist Wilhelm Busch, the "Kids," their antics and tricks on the ever gullible Captain and Inspector, amused millions of U. S. children, still retain immense popularity. Dibble's first "comic," indistinguishable from the original, unfolded an elaborate plot involving a weight-reducing machine, whereby the Kids got pies by the dozen, ice cream by the gallon, and put their parents into straitjackets...
...presence of a single character, Bobble Spence, a victim of poison gas who can neither speak nor move sufficiently to write. He it is who in the end gives the answer to the question "Who did it?", but it is not given before a long investigation by Inspector Faucet, the detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about the murder is Bobbie, for that pitiable person was of necessity in the room where the murder took place at the fatal...
...before the February riots. In 1925 and again in 1926 Sir Richard Squires was convicted and fined for making improper income tax returns. Nevertheless he became Premier a second time in 1928, has clung tightly to the job ever since. Last week, thinking to spare Sir Richard further trouble. Inspector General Hutchings of the Newfoundland constabulary ordered his men to disperse the humble petitioners?an order which turned them instantly into an ugly...
...sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry out the Law he decides to resign his post. On the execution morning arrives His Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to oversee the hanging. Kent, in charge until his resignation has been accepted, refuses to proceed. Eight o'clock, the scheduled hour, ticks by. The Inspector telephones London for authority, tells the executioner to stand by. At 8:06 the House Office telephones Kent. Prisoner Jones has been...