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...years ago, had sold him two books which he thought came from the Library. To Mr. Williams' home went police and Library officials. They found many a scholarly volume?history, astrology, art, economics, biology?many, they said, with library marks, some partially deleted, some completely visible. He denied any theft, said he was a booklover, had bought books from a former classmate whose name he did not rightly remember. Mrs. Williams wept. When photographers came, Booklover Williams muttered: "This is a beastly performance." The books were loaded in a truck, sent off for Library officials to check over. Booklover Williams...
...from Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.-biggest crime of its nature in U. S. history (TIME, Sept. 4). Although Criminal Wolf had a conference with Chief Justice Harry M. Fisher before the trial and quoted the Bible glibly, he was accorded no leniency because during his twelve years of theft he made no attempt to confess until he thought auditors were tracking him down. Chicagoans, pleased by the unexpected swiftness of Justice, continued to pun about "keeping the Wolf from the door...
...least gruesome of all the pictures New York newspapers published of the murdered man's body. It . . . encompassed the whole Collings mystery story. It was a picture of murder and the forces of society at work attempting to unravel the mystery. . . . "As to the matter of theft ... the Times would count any photographer on its staff a total loss who folded his camera and went home merely because some one told him not to make a picture. The Times is a funny old bat of a sheet, anyhow...
Canny Continental Illinois was insured against such losses for $2,000,000 by Lloyd's of London. When the English insurers heard of the theft they said, "Millions of pounds have been paid in the past to U.S. banks but the Chicago claim is the largest of its kind...
Suspect Clark. 33, was most recently conspicuous as the prosecutor of Daisy De Boe, former secretary of Cinemactress Clara Bow, for theft (TIME, Jan. 26). He is a son-in-law of New York's late Supreme Court Justice James T. Malone. The most spectacular feat of his eight years of public service was the conviction in 1926 of Albert Marco (Albori), big-scale proprietor of brothels and gambling places. Marco, who is in San Quentin prison, had a partner and consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that...