Word: chauffeured
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...five gunmen burst in but the guests, playing backgammon, were not perturbed. Austin H. Niblack had just gone home and this, they thought, was some practical joke of his. They changed their minds when the bandits began to collect jewelry. While the robbers were at work Chauffeur William Matheson slipped to a telephone, in a whisper called police. Two officers arrived, were lined up with the victims by the gunmen who then lost their nerve, fled. The police gave chase, shooting and shot at, and recovered an overcoat containing nearly all the stolen jewelry, valued at $150,000. Three...
Fourteenth kidnaping in St. Louis in two years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series...
...automobile crash near her husband's Roslyn, L. I., estate caused when her chauffeur swerved to avoid another car, Mrs. Clarence H- Mackay, the former Anna Case, opera singer, was cut on the face and hand, severely bruised...
Next move for the prosecution was to call bald, bespectacled Fred Ries, who testified he handled the finances of four Cicero gambling houses, gave the checks to wizened little Bobby Barton, chauffeur for Jack Gusick, Capone's "financial secretary." Barton, known as "The Little Man," did not testify, but kept popping in & out of court to be identified. Snorkey seemed interested in Ries's testimony, caused spectators to recall gossip that gangsters were looking for him since he helped to get Gusick a five-year sentence. A handwriting expert identified Capone's signature...
...universities students with automobiles often tie strips of inner tubing to the exhausts, which when the motor is suddenly speeded causes them to emit a familiar noise known as "the bird," "corporal's salute," or "Bronx cheer.'' In Mexico City chauffeurs devised a code of horn signals, added this U. S. innovation. One chauffeur was stopped by a policeman named Tomas Gonzalez, sharply reprimanded for a traffic violation. As the chauffeur drove away he stepped on the accelerator, made his horn issue a loud, vulgar noise. Tomas Gonzalez jumped on the car's running board, beat...