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...keepers unlocked the door of Robber Spiers' cell. Still cringing he took a few steps between his guards, then with a sudden scream of terror, sprang away, vaulted over the pipe railing of the cell gallery, and plunged down three stories to crash, a sodden neck-broken corpse at the very feet of the assembled Justices of the Peace...
...Pipe & Foundry Co. (chief product: cast iron pipe for water & gas mains): $2,581,000 as against...
...Byers Co. (wrought iron pipe since 1864): $339,000 in last quarter of 1929, against $420,000 in same period...
...works of Anatole France, of whom he wrote a biography. Lane knew agnostic Author France and admired him, but not nearly so much as he does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking a pipe. Says he: "I read very little new stuff. When a new book comes out, I take down an old one. . . . Writing I like as a sailor likes the sea?mighty glad to be done with it, and then very soon itching to get back to it again...
...Manhattan, Dr. Nicholas Partos, chain-store druggist, wealthy manufacturer of chocolate-coated pills, awoke and found a burglar prowling through his Fifth Avenue mansion. The burglar hit Dr. Partos on the head with a piece of iron pipe. Dr. Partos tore off the burglar's mask, chased him downstairs, bashed him repeatedly on the head with his fist. Allowing the burglar to run out of the house, Dr. Partos returned upstairs to reassure Mrs. Partos who observed the burglar fleeing into Central Park. In his haste he had left his coat, hat and shoes in the house, was running...