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...Bill") Potter, Cleveland councilman until ousted in connection with that city's land-grant scandals in 1928-29, dropped into the City Hall within the fortnight for a chat with some of his old friends. They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council. Perhaps they discussed some of the 13 suits which have been started against him since 1924, or the perjury trial against him then pending, or the fact that he was broke. At any rate...
...killing Potter were varied. One said he had been "put on the spot" by racketeers. Another called attention to the fact that one Liston Schooley, like Potter a city official ousted by the land-scandal investigations in 1929 (and like him, an old gossiper in "The Statesman's Window"), was about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook...
...hole in its side. In the chapel choir room was heard miaowing, tinkling a cat was shut up in the piano. Chapel memorials to deceased worthies were ink-spattered, mutilated. A crucifix was found in bushes near the chapel: it had been torn from its niche, tossed through a window...
...entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Policeman Jacob Rosenthal pursued five youthful automobile thieves, fired a shot into the back window of their automobile. It swerved to a curb, stopped. Two lads alighted, ran off. In the back seat Policeman Rosenthal found Dominic Imperato and Joseph Mazzola wriggling, struggling, gripped by the death-locked arms of Joseph Romano...