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...paid five gunmen $25 each to hide behind a screen, shoot a man dead. In a fit of jealousy, dim-witted young Delbert Green had killed his wife, his mother-in-law and her husband, delayed his execution for six years by fruitless appeals. Finally given a choice between rope and firing squad, he shrugged, got shooting because it was cheaper...
...pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond ring worth $38,000, enough other loot to bring the total to $400,000-largest robbery of its kind in Long Island history...
Travelers back from the East have for generations enlivened dinner parties with accounts of Hindu fakirs who floated unsupported in mid-air before the eyes of hundreds, or climbed a miraculous rope until they were lost to sight. Skeptical listeners, psychic researchers, men of science have scoffed at these marvels, called them a romantic variety of mass hypnotism. Last week armchair theorists got a shock when a set of photographs taken in broad daylight by two hard-headed Britishers reached the U. S. The pictures show a white-robed Indian Yogi reclining several feet above the ground in a sculpturesque...
...lured to the meeting on the pretext that he was needed for a sandlot baseball team. The men piled into a string of automobiles with their victim, started out of town. At a spot near Dearborn, after a round of drinks, one Denton Dean discovered that there was no rope handy, abruptly shot five slugs into Charles Poole...
...cooperation, it was observed that two apes would soon learn to work together on a rope to bring a basket of food within reach. When one wanted to quit work, he patted the other on the back...