Word: closet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis that Kidnapper Robinson motored Mrs. Stoll. In an apartment two blocks from the executive mansion of the Governor of Indiana, she was bound, nearly suffocated in a closet. Following directions in the ransom letter left in Louisville, Mrs. Stoll's kin sent $50,000 express to Father Robinson in Nashville. Snatcher Robinson's wife started for Indianapolis with the money, detrained at Terre Haute, unconsciously avoided a taxi proffered by a D. O. I. man in disguise, motored to Indianapolis. Off the trail, Chief Purvis and his men did not catch up with Mrs. Robinson until...
...positively identified the ransom notes to "Jafsie" Condon as Hauptmann's work. In Hauptmann's garage $13,750 of the ransom money had been found. In Hauptmann's home was discovered notepaper identical with that used in the ransom notes. A loose board taken from a closet in Hauptmann's apartment was found to have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives uncovered another $840 of the Lindbergh money. District Attorney Foley was now able to account for all except...
...Paris correspondents Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 80-year-old mother of the President, was chatting of her son. Newshawk: "Did you ever have to spank him?'' Mrs. Roosevelt: ''No, I never did. But I did lock him in the closet once, and I thought he would kick the door down, he was so furious...
...ordinary electric base plug and water system, is equipped with a one-eighth h.p. motor which forces air up through water coils into a chamber where it is sprayed, dehumidified, washed under pressure. Water for the coils is cooled by the condensing unit which may be installed in a closet, kitchen or basement. Three cabinets can be operated on one condensing unit which costs about $200. Each cabinet conditions 600 cu. ft. of air per minute, has a refrigeration capacity of one ton, i. e. exudes the same amount of cold as one ton of ice melting evenly...
...poor Frenchmen, eight of whom committed suicide when she was jailed for swindling and bankruptcy. For 15 months she sat in her cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike to get her case into court, became a popular heroine. Forbidden to feed her forcibly in jail, police transferred her to a hospital. Then it took seven internes to hold her while they got the tube into her nostril. Left alone...