Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indigent relatives of Congressmen. Lately some of them have been publicly disgraced. In Washington, a Federal deputy marshal tried last autumn to fix a jury to help the Brothers Warring, rich operators of a numbers racket. In Kansas City, two deputy marshals escorting a prisoner from Fort Leavenworth to Chicago got drunk. Last week Thomas E. Ott, former chief deputy marshal of Washington, D. C., was arrested in Cleveland for embezzlements which brought his discharge last December...
Reinhold A. Faust, 74, of No. 2517 North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present...
...following week Chicago's late Banker James B. Forgan received a note demanding $100,000, on pain of being bombed. Police arrested Reinhold Faust and convicted him of attempted extortion...
Reinhold Faust was a peaceful old man last week, but for over 21 years he had had no peace. When he was taken to Joliet Penitentiary to serve 14 months for threatening Banker Forgan, he was in a predicament. In Box No. 198 in the vaults of Chicago's National Safety Deposit Co. he had four black powder gaspipe bombs. He solved his problem momentarily by throwing away the safe deposit...
Prior to this week work-outs in Commonwealth Armory have been very spotty because of a wave of illness that swept through the lineup. Gay Dillingham, pivot man and individual star of the team, has spent most of the time since the game with Yale at Chicago in the infirmary...