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...late Chief Justice William Howard Taft: $5,637,233.41 each to Daughters Jane Taft Ingalls (mother of David Sinton Ingalls, defeated last week for Ohio's Governorship) and Anna Louise Taft Semple: $1,000,000 to the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. By Allan Pinkerton, late president of famed Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; $1,040,515.18: to Son Robert Allan Pinkerton. By Edmund Roebling, last of famed Bridge-builder John Roebling's four sons (see p. 37); $14,788,160 to twelve nephews and nieces...
...days later, Pinkerton men and a city detective in a police car with a Georgia license, acting on stoolpigeon information, followed a car with three men in it to the middle of Williamsburg bridge. Suddenly the pursued car stopped. The men jumped out, began throwing things over the railing into the river. When the gang was subdued, four gold bars with the Brooklyn firm's mark on them were found in their car. The three prisoners had penitentiary records. They incriminated two others. Police revealed that the men, suspected of staging three other similar raids since last spring, were...
...Miss Pinkerton (First National) be longs to an excellent and recently neglected form of cinema entertainment. It is a mystery story which keeps a straight face. "Who killed Herbert Wynne?" is the question at the beginning. Mystery loves company and the murderer might have been: a butler with exaggerated hands, an old woman who lies grunting on her deathbed, a peeping-Tom physician, a mumbling housemaid, an arrogant young man, one of two immoral young girls, or a lawyer who wears pince-nez spectacles and casts a tremendously large shadow. On the other hand, young Herbert Wynne might have killed...
...Miss Pinkerton is handicapped against its current competitors by containing no monsters, lunatics or apes. Its blood-curdling qualities, those of a puzzle rather than a nightmare, are therefore attributable to a skillful adaptation by Niven Busch of Mary Roberts Rinehart's story. Comic relief in mystery stories is so easy to do that it is seldom done as satisfactorily as when a policeman herein finds fault with a nosey reporter. "I'm the Morning Eagle," says the reporter. "Go feather your nest," the policeman says, and throws him off the porch. Joan Blondell's round eyes...
...Edward Ellice said: "Nothing that previously took place in the affairs of the Hudson's Bay Company can at all have reference to what has been the conduct or the management of the Company for the last forty years." This is the focal point about which Mr. Pinkerton builds his book. There is no connection save the name between the original "Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" and the modern institution which has played so important a part in the development of northern and western Canada. For a century and a half after the original charter...