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Born in Brooklyn 34 years ago, Alphonse Capone started up to the top of U. S. crime on May 12, 1920 when James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, whose lowly bodyguard Capone was in the Chicago underworld, was assassinated...
Chinatown Tong feuds and peace-conferences. Like many a newsgatherer, he often has been pressed into service as an emergency fireman, surgeon, bodyguard. He is married, has had one daughter, who died...
Professor Tsankoff dared. Protected by a bodyguard of detectives he has worked ceaselessly for months gathering evidence against the Imro. In May the tide began to turn in his favor. He entered the Cabinet of grey-bearded Prime Minister Andrei Liaptcheff. Imro's Ivan Mihailoff prudently disappeared from Sofia, some say to Italy. Last week Minister Tsankoff persuaded his colleagues in the Cabinet that it was safe to move openly against the Imro. Bulgarians waited breathlessly for the next move, Mihailoffs retaliation...
...shot came from over the wall," said the lotus-loving Governor's bodyguard, but when it was pointed out that his rifle was warm and contained a discharged cartridge, he accepted the situation philosophically enough. "I shot the Governor," he said simply, "because a man gave me money to shoot the Governor. I am a poor soldier. I needed the money...
Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...