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...formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House of Habsburg but on that asset, despite...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...
Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned...
Except for the confession of Assassin Nikolaev who was later shot, the confessions last week were by far the most important to the Kirov case. Over 100 Russians had been shot for confessing less, some after admitting mere "ideological community" with the "spirit of the crime." What super-punishment could Judge Ulrich mete out to these super-guilty secret police...
Rigidly barred from the Soviet Union last week was a brief blast from Great Exile Leon Trotsky, scholarly elaborator of the Doctrine of Permanent Revolution and No. 1 enemy of Stalin. At the Kirov trials, the State has charged that an unnamed "foreign consul" in Leningrad gave Assassin Nikolaev money and asked him for "a letter to Trotsky...