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Dead Men. Mrs. Western testified that her husband had been summoned to the Acra estate, had gone there in his car several hours before "Skunky" Klein was known to have started in it to Brooklyn. She and the police feared Western was dead, directed a widespread search for his body, which would be evidence upon which to apprehend the legally elusive Diamond. Whether or not Western was dead, two other alleged racketeers were surely dead in Brooklyn, and two more were in hospitals, struggling to keep alive, all shot since Klein's drunken revelations. Because of these shootings, District...
...back even to the founding of the colony. In 1902 three young friends, Hervey White, the late Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Coit Brown, fired with a dream that Poet-Painter William Morris (1834-96) had outlined to Whitehead at Oxford, started tramping through the eastern U. S. in search of a model site for an art colony. White and Whitehead roamed the Carolinas, but it was Brown who discovered Woodstock.? He sent for his friends. Ten thousand dollars was put up with which to buy land but the stolid Dutch farmers were as testy then as the merchants...
...home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east, but no trace was found until Horn's fortuitous discovery...
...Milwaukee, Howard Burnett. 23. in search of food at his boarding house found the kitchen door locked, went outside, attempted to climb through a window. The sash came down on his neck, strangled...
...hiring his secretary solely on the strength of his letter of application. Wrexham's only duties are to live in Scrivener's London flat, catalog his library, receive his friends, write occasional reports to the absent employer. One by one Scrivener's friends turn up in search of him, get acquainted with Wrexham, tell him what they think of Scrivener. Each description is different. None of the friends have met, but through Wrexham they become intimate. Complications ensue. Soon Wrexham is convinced that the whole business is an experiment of Scrivener's, a carefully laid plot...