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Reduced Charge. In Los Angeles, jailed on suspicion of auto theft, ex-Convict Henry Segura swiped Cellmate Manuel Salazar's clothes and identification cards, paid Salazar's $25 fine for drunkenness and calmly walked out the front door...
Concerned chiefly with the theft of the Bruce-Partington submarine plans, the play bounced all over London before shifting to the Swiss chalet of Professor Moriarty (Thomas Gomez). Here Holmes and his great adversary were locked in that death plunge from which Holmes had later (in the face of a clamoring public) to be restored to life. The plunge mattered less in the present case, since Holmes was scarcely alive before. Actor Rathbone made a very recognizable but far from inimitable figure of him; in the script Holmes was not much of a brain, and in the acting...
...cases of theft on the campus, the proctors handle the investigations themselves, and have a remarkably good record. Although none of them have had police training, their long residence in town has given the proctors insight to the Princeton mentality in regards to trouble. Often, students, find a riot dispersed before it has gotten fairly started because the proctors, sensing that trouble was brewing, were on the spot before it could develop...
Tragedy and old age clubbed him first. His half-Indian daughter drank herself to death, a son was jailed for theft, arteriosclerosis felled Joaquin. "It is not poetic to take pills," he fumed. On the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1913, saying "Take me away, take me away!" he died...
...Oakland in 1919-20, deputy district attorney for Alameda County (Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda) in 1920-25, district attorney in 1925-39. A relentless prosecutor, he convicted an average of 15 murderers a year, jailed the county sheriff for gambling graft, convicted Alameda's mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...