Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boathooks jabbed at a semi-skeleton from which half the flesh had sloughed away. Seeing a glint of gold at the wrist, Captain Bougrad warned his men not to let it slip off. When peered at it proved to be an identification bracelet engraved: Captain Loewenstein, 315 Rue de la Science, Brussels...
...that the $55,000,000 estate of Belgium's richest jew could now be distributed to his heirs, since his death was certain at last. A few days before the body was found the Court of Appeals at Brussels had refused to issue a death certificate, holding that Captain Loewenstein was simply "missing," after his disappearance from an airplane in flight over the English Channel (TIME, July 16). This ruling, if persisted in, would have made it impossible to distribute the estate until 100 years after Captain Loewenstein's birth...
Identification was made absolute, last week, when certain unfinished dental work in the skeleton's upper jaw was positively identified by Captain Loewenstein's dentist. Mme. Loewenstein sent a -brother and brother-in-law to view the appalling sight. Not present was son & heir Robert Loewenstein, 18, racially only half a Jew and, like his father, a Roman Catholic by conviction...
Said Brother-in-law Convert, husband of Captain Loewenstein's late sister: "I want this affair cleared up. If my brother-in-law was drugged we must know about it, if possible. Suicide is out of the question. On the day before his death Captain Loewenstein telephoned one of his closest friends that he was on his way to see his son ride in the horse show at Geneva. He was a man too happy to commit suicide." Autopsy findings. ". . . many multiple fracture wounds, proving that the fall was from a great height ... no trace of drugs or poisons...
...policemen, acting upon a court order which temporarily restrained the producers from exhibiting the piece, appeared at the theatre while the play was in progress. Their captain, one Layne, leaped upon the stage with a cry that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later...