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...middle-class apartment house. In the same building, just across the hall from "Bader's" apartment, lived a Miss Rose Huebsch whom Roche knew. After an attempt to capture Brothers on a railroad train had failed, Chief Roche enlisted Miss Huebsch's aid and a trap was laid in her apartment house. Early on the Sunday morning before Christmas, Brothers, called by a ruse to a down stairs telephone, was seized in the hall by Roche and his aids who issued, pistols pointed, out of Miss Huebsch's door. In his room was found a .45 automatic...
...British bulldog was waiting for us 'round the corner. How kind of them to let us know of the trap in time and what a fool of a governor to give the show away! When Von Spee was informed he laughed heartily, and we steamed off full speed in the opposite direction...
...west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap-shooters in the 1924 Olympic Games), he keeps at Pelican Lake his countless trophies and his guns, among them a $2,000 elephant gun. Also he maintains there a zoo. In his editors, Publisher Fawcett insists upon what he calls "the divine spark." If one must be discharged...
...Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations. One short year ago publicists for the B. I. S. were successfully emplanting...
Near Jamestown, N. Y., Tearle H. George, fireman, caught a muskrat in a trap, prodded it with the butt of his shotgun, was shot in the abdomen...