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...morale, the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation buckled to its new and difficult work with a will. Up to last week it had acted in 31 kidnapping cases, returned alive all but one kidnappee. Of the 74 "snatchers" whom Federal agents had helped to catch and convict, two had been sentenced to death, 16 had been condemned to life imprisonment and the rest were given an aggregate of 1,186 years in jail. Two kidnappers committed suicide and two were lynched. Last week Department of Justice operatives added fresh laurels to their excellent record with a quick...
...Kansas City early one June morning last year, four Federal agents, two local detectives and an Oklahoma police officer led a runaway convict named Frank Nash out of Union Station to a waiting car. As they were getting in, machine gun fire mowed down Frank Nash, all three policemen, one Federal agent. Terrified bystanders hardly noticed the killers as they fled from the second largest gangster killing on record.* Not until last month did Federal or State officers have a shred of courtworthy evidence in the Union Station case. Then police picked up a sniveling little gangster named Michael LaCapra...
...pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...
Murder- It would be a strange jury, thought Prosecutor Foley, which would not convict on these facts. But an extortion verdict with a possible sentence of 20 years in Sing Sing was only the secondary motive behind the District Attorney's elaborately constructed case. His main idea war to keep Bruno Richard Hauptmann in penal storage until New Jersey could gather evidence, extradite and indict for murder...
...hacking forlornly at the soil with a spade, they are happy to take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging...