Word: jails
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...ever from arrest by Japanese police. For one thing his beloved Koki Hirota, "one of my best boys," is Foreign Minister. For another, famed Terrorist Priest Inouye, once a likely rival for the post of Japan's No. 1 guide, philosopher and friend of patriotic assassins, is now in jail. He inspired the killing of Japan's greatest financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan, and Finance Minister Inouye, to be carefully distinguished from Terrorist Priest Inouye...
...After two days in jail Harry Strauss appeared in Brooklyn Homicide Court sleek, sneering, nattily dressed as ever. For the eighteenth time he went free, for lack of evidence...
...Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...
...Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank. A dark-haired, personable youth of 23 whose duties included handling the check entries in the A, B and C ledgers, he planned to marry on Thanksgiving Day. But last week Otto Van Derck spent what was to have been his wedding day in jail. He had confessed to aiding and abetting two of his B customers in a $54,000 swindle. His confession cracked in time's nick a dazzling plot to gut a life insurance company with $70,000,000 of policies in force...
...running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo insurance company. In his earlier days his favorite method was first to found a bank, then loot...