Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...
Informed by French rustics that he could not get to Andorra through the mountain roads, buried 20 feet under snow drifts, he snorted: "If I had my null der car which cost $32,000 I'd go through these roads like a tank...
Assassinated. James Leslie Starkey, 50, famed British archeologist; near Jerusalem. Driving in from his excavations at Lachish, he was halted by a band of Arabs, dragged from his car, shot...
...Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Robert Zwikel was caught making an illegal turn. While Officer Robert Fall wrote a summons, Driver Zwikel closed the car's windows, locked its doors, refused to come out. Officer Fall called a tow truck, which hauled Zwikel & car to headquarters. There Detective Walter Storms broke a window with his pistol butt. Warned Driver Zwikel as they jailed him: "You'll make my wife angry. I was supposed to meet her an hour...
...Providence, R. I. Taxi Driver Morris Widergren, driven to distraction by a body-squeak in his car, inspected it thoroughly, found...