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...stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack, he said, because "it occurred to me that if there were only some mark on Freda's body it would look like an accident and leave...
...Southeast), John King Ottley, 65, saw a fruit peddler to whom he had often given a lift to town. This time the peddler flourished a pistol, took the banker for a ride to the country, left him in charge of a 17-year-old boy armed with a blackjack. It took Banker Ottley only a few minutes to persuade the boy to release him, accompany him to nearby Suwanee, lead a posse to the fruit peddler's hideout...
Sirs: CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR GLITTERING "TIME-WORTHY" CAMEO OF "ALFALFA BILL" [TIME, Feb. 29] STOP TIME FALTERED ONLY IN COMPARING MURREYS RUGGED HONESTY WITH THAT OF CLEVELAND STOP DO YOU THINK THE GREAT GROVER WOULD PUBLISH A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SEND BLACKJACK ADVERTISING SOLICITORS TO PATRONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF AFFAIRS ADVISING THEM TO ADVERTISE IN WORTHLESS MEDIUM AT HIGH RATE IF THEY DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE STATE...
...Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...
...Kansas City, Mo., the National Bootjack Association held an exhibition. Best bootjack was that of Woodrow Weaver, 16. It was auctioned off for $100 (for the Red Cross), sent off to General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing. Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas exhibited a bootjack which was sold...