Word: manhunt
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Result of this old-style manhunt: discovery of MacDonald, now a telephone operator in a Baltimore apartment house. A Baltimore couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending...