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...service, was left on a road in his own automobile and promptly drove to his home at Lake Geneva, Wis. There he denied that an associate had paid $50,000 for his release. Unlike Kidnappee Rosenthal. Kidnappee Lynch said he would do all he could to help capture and convict the seven men who had held up his car with shotguns, tied him up and held him for six days. During those six days friends of Mr. Lynch had appealed to no less a person than Chief Gangster Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone to effect his release. Mr. Capone, deprecating kidnapping, promised...
...instant Crusader Hall alighted at Havana, President William Pawley of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba handed him a Cuban cocktail. After gulping it, Crusader Hall ejaculated, "That alone was worth the trip!" Then he ordered another.-ED. Convict Kylsant...
...peddler, and inquired: "How come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down and confessed...
...jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...arthritis and arteriosclerosis. To keep him in a dry climate and out of humid Washington's jail, a considerate judge changed his sentence to a year & a day. This technicality gave Attorney General Mitchell authority to designate the New Mexico penitentiary for his imprisonment. The change also brought Convict Fall under the Federal parole law which meant he could be released in four months. Still pending against him, however, is a $100,000 fine. To clear that debt without paying it, Bribee Fall must remain an extra 30 days in jail and take the pauper's oath...