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While the real cause of the murder of County Attorney Middleton probably will never be known, most Kentucky officials agree with Reader Rosenstein that slot-machine racketeers were back of it. Six men are in Harlan County jail, under indictment for first degree murder...
...high-tension wires that crossed his property, pull a metal object across the wires, short-circuiting the line and putting out the lights in three neighboring towns. He did this some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited him for contempt, ordered seizure of the body of John Crempa...
...years before Tom Mooney went to jail, a farmer of Waterford, Conn. shot a golden eagle which had been raiding his chicken-run. The bird was only winged and the farmer took it to State Tree Warden Henry Fuller, who turned it over to Elmer Kenerson, New London's husky Superintendent of Parks. An animal-lover who knew something about veterinary science, Elmer Kenerson set the big bird's pinion, named it "Uncle Sam," built it a wooden cage 30 ft. high and 20 ft. wide around a tree in New London's wildish Riverside Park beside...
...Oxford, Miss., a judge dismissed a jury debating the case of Negro Ellwood Higginbotham, accused of murdering a white man. After awaiting the jury's verdict for more than 24 hours, an impatient mob had hauled Negro Higginbotham out of jail, hanged him to a tree. ¶In Manhattan, detectives arrested Gustave Freeman when he stepped off the S. S. Ile de France, found in his trunk 100,000 French National Lottery tickets, apparently forged...
Significantly both short-selling Merchant Nato and slack-jowled Commander Yamaguchi "died in jail" before the trial, as did two others who might have blabbed on the fanatical Committee of Revolution. Those tried last week were nearly all raw country youths, dupes of typical Japanese "blood brotherhood" propaganda. On paper the Great Plot had been one of the most appalling in Japanese history. But the only weapons of the plotters, aside from the bombing plane which never appeared, was a collection of Japanese swords and a handful of revolvers obviously useless against the firearms of police guarding the cabinet...