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Diamond v. Capone? In the police lineup Chauffeur Dalton said he had just seen his employer off for Europe on the S. S. Baltic. Newsgatherers, who already had heard rumors that Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone planned a return to Brooklyn (his birthplace) in support of "Little Augie" Pisano, immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse...
International. Diamond meanwhile was not to be located. Only Dalton, Klein, and Mrs. Diamond insisted he was aboard the Baltic. The Baltic's captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason...
Angel Pavement is a dock-tailed street shuffled in somewhere in E. C. 1 or E. C. 2, and one of the forgotten firms upon it is Twigg & Dersingham, Veneers and Inlays. Upon this languishing business bursts James Golspie, breezy and bumptious, fresh from the Baltic with the sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian...
Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, chief of the school for commercial pilots at Warne-munde on the Baltic, kissed his hausfrau last week, remarked casually, "It is time for the annual practice flight to Iceland; I will be gone tomorrow with three of my students." Next day Frau von Gronau received a note: "I am leaving on a longer trip. Love to you and the children." By that time the captain, with Students Eduard Zimmer, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack had taken off from the school's seaplane port at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt. Their plane...
After the Armistice Soldier Crozier continued to work at his trade: with the Lithuanians against the Germans in the Baltic, against the Bolshevists in Poland. In 1920 he raised, then commanded, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Next year he resigned on account of "condonation of crime in the Irish police...