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Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
...Konfidential Klub," tells about the death of awkward little Soldier Kemper whose speedy achievement of a great desire to be successful in the Army was interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted to the great discomfiture of ogreish District Attorney Sprinkle Kit's companions in theft get a pardon from the governor. Miss Siddons' madman reappears and is packed off to the asylum. Miss Siddons has her face fixed, her reputation mends slowly...
...Theft...
...York, jewelers indorsed last year's Baumes laws providing life imprisonment for criminals four times convicted of a felony, said the laws have reduced their losses from theft...