Word: daltons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arsenal. Klein babbled about Fred Witcher, who lived nearby. In Witcher's apartment, the detectives encountered James Dalton, Diamond's chauffeur, come to take Mrs. Witcher to visit in Acra. The visit was postponed .and all present were arrested, because under a Witcher bed was discovered a terrifying gangland armory, including bullet-proof vests, "pineapple" hand-grenades, tear gas bombs, revolver ammunition, several calibres of "fountain-pen" pistols, dynamite...
Diamond v. Capone? In the police lineup Chauffeur Dalton said he had just seen his employer off for Europe on the S. S. Baltic. Newsgatherers, who already had heard rumors that Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone planned a return to Brooklyn (his birthplace) in support of "Little Augie" Pisano, immediately conjectured that Diamond had prepared to contest the alliance by accumulating armament, by leaving the U. S. so as to be away when the shooting began. Among this and other wild, vague reasons given for expecting a Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse...
International. Diamond meanwhile was not to be located. Only Dalton, Klein, and Mrs. Diamond insisted he was aboard the Baltic. The Baltic's captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason...
...Stephen Eaton last March to John T. Harrington, president of Trumbull Steel. Last week the message was read in court. Newton D. Baker, attorney for the merger of Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube, asked Mr. Eaton whom he meant. Mr. Eaton said "our Cleveland friend" was Henry G. Dalton, vice president of Youngstown and a director in Bethlehem...
...main Eaton line of attack last week centered on attempts to show that the Youngstown-Bethlehem merger gave Youngstown stockholders no fair deal and that in urging it Mr. Campbell had been strongly influenced by pro-Bethlehem interests. Eaton attorneys emphasized the fact that Henry G. Dalton, who had sat in with Mr. Campbell in meetings with Mr. Grace, was a director of Bethlehem as well as of Youngstown. It was also brought out that Pickands, Mather & Co., ore firm of which Mr. Dalton is a partner and which was active in the purchase of Youngstown stock proxies voted...