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...stern Justice and a Mississippi orator. In one of his first cases in the Islands he had declared: "I am responsible only to Homer Cummings and to God Almighty." He refused to dismiss a case against a minor public works employe charged with pilfering a small amount of lumber and cement. Instead, he put witnesses on the stand, questioned them and then, without a jury, found the employe guilty and fined him $200, saying, "You have become a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country." This procedure was, according to the Department of Justice, proper under Danish...
...like Hauptmann's, declared the Government wood expert, had "signed" its teeth marks into the lumber in the ladder...
Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
...story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh premises the night of the crime. For months newspapers had trumpeted the fact that lumber in the ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann had once worked...
Deep in a lumber chest. Sometimes I'm near...