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...worked. Eisenstadt wants to stage the major celebration but she wants also the skull, possessed now by the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Vienna Friends, loth to lend it, received it from the heirs of the morbid jailer. When the authorities discovered and traced the theft ten years after it was made, the culprits procured the skull of somebody else, surrendered that...
Mail Order Insurance. Exciting to the insurance trade was news last week that 13 officials of Sears. Roebuck & Co. had acted as incorporators of a new insurance company. Called All-State Insurance Co., the firm will write accident, health, burglary and theft insurance as well as com- plete automobile coverage. Carl L. Odell, Chicago insurance broker, is reported to be the chief sponsor of the new company. He said last week that, first of all, automobile insurance will be solicited from Sears, Roebuck employes. But no imagination was required to see Sears, Roebuck adding insurance to its big mail-order...
...church. And he was sure that anyone reading the headline would believe that he was accused of larceny. To be sure, the news story made it clear that someone else had stolen the furs from the organ loft, where they had been secreted. And the man arrested for the theft revealed that two of the skins were not yet dry, indicating they had been trapped out of season. It was also made clear that Pastor Schoenfeld, who was known to trade in furs as a sideline to preaching, had been served with a warrant for possession of "illegal" furs...
...alarm brought 100 policemen and detectives to surround the building. Two of the thieves were apprehended. One was Roy H. Sloane, onetime boy prodigy of Carnegie School of Technology and Columbia University, who was sentenced five years ago to serve ten years in Sing Sing for an automobile theft. Prodigy Sloane studied law in prison, argued his way out, has been at liberty nine weeks. ¶ In a small East Side hotel, Al Wagner, minor racketeer and dope peddler, was executed. Earlier in the day his brother Abe, head of an alcohol ring, had been fired upon...
...Angeles County Jail. Said the judge: "The jury . . . was . . . generous and sympathetic. There was abundant evidence to prove you guilty of theft in 35 instances...