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Last week the Legislative Committee under Samuel Seabury investigating Tam many Town wanted to question ex-Convict Maier, now grown rich and politically important as a manipulator of German votes. What did David Maier know about an evil-smelling city pier lease? But the onetime brothel keeper was not to be found until the hawk-eyed press spotted him 4,000 mi. away ? junketing around Europe with no less a person than Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker (TIME, Sept...
...Convict and onetime Brothelman Maier then explained that it was just a "coincidence" that he sailed on the Bremen with the Mayor, that he was going to Germany for sciatica treatments, that he had joined the Walker party ("I paid all my own expenses") at the Mayor's request because he could speak German. Within 24 hours after the interview, however, "True Friend" Maier disappeared from Paris, presumably to take his sciatica to Berlin...
...stole the warden's son's clothing, dieted from 180 to 130 pounds, fit himself into the grey linen suit, blue shirt, sport belt, black & white sport shoes, clapped the golf hat on his head, seized a golf stick, sauntered to freedom. After a holiday in Davenport, Iowa, clever Convict Miller borrowed an automobile, started for Chicago. At Dixon, 111., he came upon something he had never seen before or during his twelve years in prison?a red traffic light. He gave it one contemptuous kok and drove merrily on. That night in the Dixon jail "Arthur Morris," arrested...
Police and guards immediately began a search for more weapons in the prison and for an armored car reported seen outside. As the hunt began, two shots rang out in a cell block. The searchers found a guard unhurt and Convict Frank Hohfer, a confederate of the other three, in his cell dead by his own hand...
Chimpanzees grow mean with age. "An old chimpanzee is a lot like an incorrigible convict in a penitentiary." Dr. Ditmars hopes "that some day our zoos will agree to ship their adult chimpanzees back to Africa and turn them loose in some sanctuary like that now established for the gorilla.* This would limit us to the exhibition of only young specimens, which are highly interesting to adults and always a joy to children...