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...hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana!) and then hang the Prince and rape the maid and after ransacking the house, set it on fire. Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People's world to live and hunt in the forest with Katok, finds his old friend Siedoi lying under a bush, staring at the morning sun with unwinking eyes, gladly...
There was only one noteworthy murder in Chicago last week. Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded...
Asked whether he thought that Scotland Yard could clean up Chicago, famed Inspector Cecil Bishop said last week: "The gangsters would be easy. It would be the police that the Yard would go after. . . . The U. S. police, on the whole, are very efficient, but many of them are also very crooked...
...Customs Inspector John Sterling, whose duty it is to comb for drugs all ships arriving in Manhattan from the Orient, paused beside the British motor-freighter Raby Castle last week and sniffed. "Opium!" said he, and set about with his crew of 40 to find it. They went down to the base of the forward mast, deep in the hold. There, surrounded by impassive Chinese the Inspector tapped the steel mast, found it hollow. "Bring a drill!" said he. Out of this hole in the hollow mast he soon extracted tins of opium worth $150,000 at $25 an ounce...
Died. Lieut. Col. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, 59, senior member of McAlpin. Kauffman, Merle-Smith & Smart (Manhattan lawyers), onetime (1908-11) inspector general of the New York National Guard, son of General Edwin Augustus McAlpin who helped found Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel, director of Greeley Square Hotel Co. (which operates the hotel), and of Women's Hotel Co.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan...