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Suddenly a motorcar drew up with screeching brakes. Out leaped two naval lieutenants, an army sergeant and two corporals of Gendarmerie, all pointing pistols which made the guards run. Bursting into the Premier's lobby, the five attackers found it guarded by Policeman Yasomatsu Hirayama. They shot him, forced their way on into the helpless Old Fox's lair. Screamed his daughter-in-law: "Please let us escape...
...Newark, N. J. one day last week a wrinkled old Negro with a fuzzy grey head sat on an ash can on Market Street, his bushy grey beard on his chest, one leathery hand extended for alms. Arrested, he was taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation...
...Boston, Traffic Police Sergeant John P. M. Wolfe, in the line of duty, had survived being bitten by a cat, a dog, an intoxicated man. He bit his tongue, died of septic poisoning...
...Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...
Everyone knows something about Cartoonist Nast's great battle with paunchy Boss Tweed of Tammany Hall. Many remember that Abraham Lincoln called him "the North's best recruiting sergeant." Few remember that Thomas Nast, a potent political figure in the U. S. for 35 years, was born in Landau, Palatinate, Germany, in 1840, emigrated at the age of 6, always spoke English with an accent. He always drew. At the age of 15, a small, fat boy, he asked the imposing Frank Leslie for a job. To get rid of him Publisher Leslie told him to draw the holiday crowds...