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There the matter might have rested had not the Miami Biltmore's owner, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, remembered the Stolen Property Act. Department of Justice agents reopened the case, got the two thieves sentenced to 25 years in prison. More important, the Miami chief of detectives informed them that it was Noel Scaffa who had delivered the jewels, that a split of the insurance company's $15,000 reward had been planned with a Scaffa operative in for $1,000. A Federal Grand Jury in New York promptly summoned Detective Scaffa for questioning. Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
...president, music was the most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus, still rehearses it Monday nights and conducts its winter and summer concerts. He has been guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the Philadelphia County Prison Band. Composer of hundreds of choral works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down melodies on sheets of ruled paper he carries in his pocket. He insists that the elevator girls in the store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies...
...heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan, the real heir to the throne, who had been kept in prison since his birth, at 24 (when Catherine went to visit him) had never seen a woman. Of Catherine's complicity in his murder, says Biographer Kaus, there is no scrap of proof, but she thinks Catherine may well have been in on the plot...
...Great Meadow Prison, Comstock, N. Y., Earl Peacox, sentenced in 1928 to 20 years-to-life for the murder of his wife, passed his college entrance examinations, planned to enter the correspondence school of Columbia University...
...amateur plastic surgeon who altered the fingertips and features of the late John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City...