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Shades of Jessie Costello and friends appear on the stage of the Wilbur this week as Eugene Courtright's new play, "The Eldest," answers the vexing problem of what happens to American wives who are freed of charges of murdering their husbands...
...circus is here again. With Mme. Costello's record run forgotten, along come the Millen boys with a brand new show. The machinery of American justice is dusted off, set up and bolted together, and set to running with its familiar squeaks and rattles. The man from Mars reading our papers will judge, rightly, that the most popularly important aspect of an affair of wholesale murder and robbery is the fact that pretty Norma bumped her knee on a cell door...
Pollux confided to me that he was nothing short of alarmed at the imminence of a third Battle of the Century. What, he asked, if Billy Sunday, following the example of Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton who plans to team up with the great Mrs. Costello, should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable...
...knows all about the Detroit negro who in 1921 was apprehended after having killed eight men by cyanide. He would sit opposite his victim in a restaurant, unfold his paper, and just drop a pill into their coffee. Incidentally, the girl is taking ten to one odds that Mrs. Costello is acquitted...
...Walsh's cries sent the porter scurrying for Conductor Herbert Weathersbee who rushed through seven Pullmans to reach the drawing room. He held the Senator's wrist, felt his heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed...