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...emphysema-weakened lungs against the cold, the frail prisoner hardly looked like a man capable of murder. But as he stepped off a train in Paoli, Pa., last week, William Henry Redmond, 66, was walking back through time to face charges in the April 1951 death of Jane Marie Althoff, an eight-year-old ) who had been strangled near a carnival outside Trainer...
...carnival's Ferris wheel operator, Redmond was questioned by police at the time, but eluded them after an arrest warrant was issued in 1952. Then in 1985 Trainer Borough Police Chief Hubert Morris revived the investigation. "I had heard about little Janie Althoff since I was a boy," said Morris, 57. "I really wanted to see what we could do to resolve this." He enlisted the expertise of State Police Trooper Malcolm Murphy. Using court records and driver's license registrations, Murphy located Redmond living quietly as a retired trucker in Grand Island, Neb. Confronted by his pursuers after...
...honey bears started fighting and stampeded the camels, tethered opposite the elephants. Noah's son Japheth, played by one of Althoff's animal trainers, was using baby talk to soothe a pair of lions and Siberian tigers in their glassed-in cages. Elsewhere in the hold, zebras nipped, sheep bleated, yaks grunted and Watusi bulls bellowed. But the real test is yet to come. This week the whole zoo, accompanied by some 1,000 birds, will make its way up the gangplank, two by two. "My God," groaned Huston, "how the hell did Noah...
...games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon all games in which money or the equivalent could be won. Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill. not only forbade church gambling but voiced the hope that his people would support their churches by direct contribution rather than parish parties and festivals. Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis condemned gambling games as "unworthy of our Catholic people ... causing much scandal," and prohibited dancing...
Next day, His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia and the Right Reverend Bishop Henry Althoff of Belleville, Ill., were received by the Pontiff, as were also the Most Reverend Archbishop Peter Fumasoni-Biondi, Apostolic Delegate at Washington, and Beniamino Gigli, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...