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...name was toiling obscurely as a civilian radio engineer employed by the Army at Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) at a salary of some $3,400 a year. Geoffrey Gottlieb Kruesi, having revolutionized long-distance flying, is at 38 neither rich nor famed. Born in Switzerland (his father was a butcher), he studied engineering at Zurich Polytechnic Institute, arrived in the U. S. 15 years ago. In California he worked under Dr. Frederick August Kolster, famed "father of the radio compass," at Federal Telegraph Co., Palo Alto...
...crowd outside the jail felt fine. Several thousand folk, hysterical as lynchers, held carnival. The bars of the Union Hotel were running full blast. A butcher boy had his pocket picked. From time to time a tipsy woman would yell: "Kill Hauptmann! Electrocute...
...summers ago the five whites were cursing their luck in Tientsin's sleazy port. Waiter Muller and George Schroeder, two brawny mechanics, were tired of snatching purses. Hamfisted, square-headed Heinrich Westermann had failed in Shanghai as a restaurant keeper, then as a butcher despite Shanghai's boom. Eagerly these three Germans fell in with a plan proposed by a smooth German seafarer. Captain Hugo Taudien, who talked figures bigger than kidnap money. Rat-faced Arthur Gautschi, a Swiss ex-convict, was cut in on the project because, as an ex-silk tester, he was thought to have...
...penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving, was let off with ten years imprisonment...
...aged, indigent parents with a money gift. The parents, who keep the village inn, fail to recognize him when he asks for lodging. Planning to surprise them in the morning, the son retires for the night. But the greedy innkeepers, who have seen their guest's bulging wallet, butcher him in his sleep. In his wallet they discover identification of their son. Most versions end with the parents in remorseful suicide...