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Most remarkable criminal confession obtained by Reporter Rogers was in the middle 1920s, when Charles Birger and his gunmen were terrorizing "Bloody Williamson" County in southern Illinois. Impressing the Birger mob by his revolver marksmanship on empty beer bottles, Reporter Rogers became so chummy with a thug named Arthur Newman...
The story might have ended there if Frank Monaghan had not had two alert sons, one of them a Yale history instructor. The sons hurried back to Uniontown, got the case reopened. After an autopsy the coroner made some surprising discoveries. His first examination, said he, had been so hurried...
HAVING JUST LOCKED OURSELVES IN ROOM AND TAKEN LARGE DOSE OF RUSSIAN "CONFESSION GAS" MENTIONED IN YOUR SHALL WE SAY DELIGHTFULLY UNBIASED ARTICLE ON THE SOVIET TRIALS [TIME, Feb. 8], WE FIND WE HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. WE CONFESS WE ARE BEWILDERED. STARTING WITH LIBERALS' ASSUMPTION THAT POSSIBLY...
"Extradite Trotsky!" Old Bolsheviks taken from the prisoners' dock last week to Ogpu subterranean cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry...
Accompanied by her three-year-old son Mannfried, Anna Hauptmann appeared before the Kings County (N. Y.) grand jury to testify secretly about the actions of New Jersey Detective Ellis H. Parker and his son, now under indictment for the kidnapping of Paul H. Wendel, whose last-minute "confession" delayed...