Word: chutist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Word got out that a German 'chutist had actually landed in Eire. Police arrested two suspects, found parachute, cap and equipment, but no 'chutist. Raiding the house of a Dubliner named Stephen Carroll Held, they next found not only an opened German parachute, German Air Force cap and German uniform insignia, but also maps of Dublin bridges, harbors and airdrome, a box containing $20,000 in U. S. money. The parachute, Held explained, had been left by a German named Heinrich Brandy, who had stayed at his house after arriving from the sky. The second suspect, Mrs. Iseult...