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John Bohling, a German-born, 40-year-old New York metalworker, was just off the Gripsholm from his first visit to Germany in 23 years. While visiting relatives on a farm near Bremen, a childhood love had been rekindled in his heart. Now he stood uneasily beside his trunk in the customs shed on Manhattan's Pier 97. John Bohling's passion was illicit in America, and he knew...
...years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled with cement and braced with iron, crashed to the ground. Unwilling to give up its symbolic ghost, the city government sent bunks of the main trunk to the governors of the forty-eight states and gave out at least 1000 pieces in all, each with a metal tag. The only evidence of the tree nowadays is a bronze on cement panel in the middle of Garden...
...freedom on her fifth escape, during which she managed to get a beauty treatment and a new hairdo, Winnie Ruth Judd went back to the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix and gave herself up. Reason: a grand jury promise to hear her side of the 20-year-old trunk murder for which she was tried and convicted without having taken the witness stand in her own defense...
During Commencement ceremonies in 1913, a middle-aged man shuffled into Matthews, slowly mounted three flights of stairs, and knocked on a door. The room's occupants opened the door, and after a short greeting, stared in amazement as the gentleman pushed a trunk toward the bedroom, climbed on top of it, and ran his hand along the top of the bedroom door. He found what he wanted, a wooden stopper plugging a ten inch hole. The room's occupants helped their visitor take the door off its hinges, and with a corkscrew they removed the plug. Inside, they found...
...After Trunk Murderess Winnie Ruth Judd made her fourth escape from the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix last December and was picked up within 24 hours, bets were laid that she would do it again within three months. Last week the bets were collected after police issued a terse bulletin: "Winnie Ruth Judd is missing...