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Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein (onetime convict for complicity m a $5,000,000 bond theft; husband ot Actress Fanny Brice) visited Chicago, registered at a hotel as "J. W. Arnold," was arrested just on general principles," was released when victims of recent Chicago confidence games recognized him as not being their deceiver. He explained he had come to confer with his onetime cellmate at Leavenworth Penitentiary, Tim" Murphy, about a flashlight signal device in which they are interested...
When Chapman was finally sentenced to hang, the editorial pages wound up the affair with: "Served him right," "Thus always with malefactors," "Now will you be good," "A splendid example of American justice," and similar sentiments reminiscent of the great days of Harry K. Thaw, Nicky Arnstein and "Lefty Louie...
Recently, the editors of The Lampoon (humorous publication at Harvard University) printed a picture of a temple with a label: "Temple of Business." They inscribed upon a prominent portion of its architecture the names Ponzi, Arnstein, Shylock, Doheny...
...Fallen was chief counsel for "Nicky" Arnstein, so-called Master Mind of the $5,000,000 Wall Street bond-theft plot. In 1922, he defended E. M. Fuller in two trials for bucketing, the jury in each trial being unable to agree. Charles W. Rendigs, the juror Fallon was accused of bribing in the Durrell-Gregory trial, also sat in one of the Fuller trials and voted steadfastly for acquittal. Rendigs is now a convicted perjurer awaiting sentence...
Mathews. -- Stroke, Heywood; 7, Briggs; 6, Stifel; 5, Arnstein; 4, Buckman; 3, Kelton; 2, Paine; bow, Duff; cox., Callaman...