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...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...
Under his son, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the house rose to higher and higher glories. Yet Friedrich Alfred failed in one important respect: he left no make heir to carry on. It took Kaiser Wilhelm II to solve this difficulty. When big buxom Bertha, Friedrich Alfred's daughter, came of marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command...
...income from the estate will revert to Judge Gary's two daughters by his first wife: Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe of Chicago and Bertha Gary Campbell, whose husband is general counsel for Illinois Steel Co. In her will Mrs. Gary left her art collection and the bulk of her estate to the Metropolitan Museum...
...Magistrate Benon to cross-examine them separately on some new evidence. A package of films brought from Switzerland showed Robert Switz's thumbprints, and two blonde hairs that under a microscope matched hair from, the head of. Marjorie Switz. In Manhattan Mrs. Switz's mother, Mrs. Bertha Tilley, was greatly upset. ''I gave my daughter a Vassar College education, I baked pies for the Woman's Exchange for 16 years to do it," said she. "I am sure she cannot be a spy, Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play...
Divorced. By Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, 28, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, sometime Imperial Russian Army major general, great-granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant: Bruce Smith, son of President Thomas Smith of Louisville Paper Co.; in Louisville, Ky. Charge: cruelty...