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...Christ's dory are His 27 listeners, who posed first in a group, then separately in Artist Stallknecht's studio. At the oars of the dory are two fishermen, deacons in the church. Prominently featured are Grocer L. Sidney Atwood, president of the church association, Insurance Man Augustus Bearse, vice president, and Restaurant Keeper Mrs. Emma Howes, clerk. Others: the Chatham electrician, auto dealer, carpenter, landscape gardener and their wives & children, some of them descendants of founders of Old Congregational Church...
Left. By the late Edmund Roebling, brother of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge engineer), an estate of $13,195,000, largely in municipal bonds. Last of the sons of the late John Augustus Roebling (designer of Brooklyn Bridge), he left his estate to twelve nieces & nephews...
Died. Violet Sharpe, 28, of Tupps Clump, England, maidservant in the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow; by her own hand (cyanide); in Englewood, N. J. She had been sharply questioned by police investigating the kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. She seemed timid, reticent. Just before she was to be questioned further regarding one Ernest Brinkert. taximan of White Plains, N. Y., with whom the police were led to believe she went riding on the night of March 1, Maid Sharpe took her life, apparently in a fit of nerves. Later the police were forced to exonerate not only...
Died. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90, one of the surgeons who attended Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth (TIME, April 4); of old age; in Manhattan...
Means heard himself called a "slippery, slimy racketeer" in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, was found guilty of larceny of $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in his fantastic plan to recover Charles Augustus Lindbergh...