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...Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
...quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason to suspect that he had been exposed to gonorrhea. With his clothes left in an anteroom where the doctor's assistant could easily find and examine the bankbook, the reporter underwent an examination. In every case...
...confess," said Sister Neophyta, "that I sent money abroad...
...creates a scene in a brothel and then completes his ruin at a Sinn Fein meeting-where he has been promised reinstatement if he tracks down the spy who betrayed McPhillip-by bringing a rash and silly accusation against a man who promptly proves his innocence. Forced to confess his own guilt, Gypo is sentenced to be shot. He escapes from his improvised jail but it does him no good. The Sinn Feiners track him to Katie's shabby lodging where he has crawled off to hide. This time, the bullets reach him as he tries to run away...
...must be seen to be believed. His mouth may be likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted a few almost inaudible hisses when the villain put in his dastardly appearance. There are a good many skits which, we must admit, seemed strikingly spontaneous...