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...murders of Edward Albert Ridley and his secretary Lee Weinstein in their gloomy subcellar office in Manhattan's Allen Street (TIME, May 22): the arrest of one Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...
...morning long the brother of Lee Weinstein, Moench's successor as old Ridley's clerk, had tried to get him on a telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone...
...yard low hurdles--won by W. C. Rowe '31; second, J. J. Weinstein 3L; third, G. F. Bergson '33 (two yards). Time...
...Nathans '30, Duke of Glastonbury; Maurice Kurnitsky '30, Lord Brooke of Brookehill; David White '29, Lord Cudworth; L. M. Shapiro '29. Charles Viscount Deeford; L. H. Weinstein 21, the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, M. P.; N. J. Winer '31, Mr. Hugh Meyers; P. W. Winer 31, Sir Michael Probert, Bart.; Arnold Kowarsky '31, Mr. Lumley Foljambe; William Taub '32, Bascot, Disraeli's Butler; A. I. M. Abramson '29, Flooks, a rural postman...