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...East St. Louis, Ill. flat last week. The capture, effected by State, Federal and local officers, ended an eight-month investigation by Post Office sleuths and other agencies. According to Patrick Roche, chief investigator of the Chicago States Attorney's Office, the prisoners were remnants of the now defunct Cuckoo and Shelton mobs of Southern Illinois. They were suspected of numerous bank robberies including the $200,000 Denver Mint holdup in 1922, and kidnappings, including that of Fred J. Blumer, Monroe (Wis.) near beer brewer, last month. Nine armed cars carried the prisoners to Chicago...
...Robert L. McReynolds, counsel of a committee looking into the alleged misuse of Tennessee funds, last week looking especially into the affairs of Col. Luke Lea, publisher, politician, crony of bankrupt Rogers Clark Caldwell (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.). Answering was M. D. Johnson, assistant cashier of the defunct Liberty Bank & Trust Co. of Nashville, whose president, Ridley Edward Donnell, shot himself after the bank closed. Witness Johnson also testified that Col. Lea opened his bank account in 1925 six days after the bank was formed, deposited $11,430,373.82 between then and the day the bank failed. This account...
Columnist Frank Sullivan of the defunct New York World was still among those World employes not appearing in print elsewhere. A "public notice" appeared in the New York Herald Tribune as follows...
...story, as last week resurrected by American Kennel Gazette: On the stormy night of March 9, 1891, Jack, Fido and Tip heard three safecrackers chiseling into the brick-wall of the car barn that then held the safe of the defunct Haight Street Cable Car line. They barked, vigorously attacked first the chiselers, then the poisoned meat which the chiselers threw them. A wary nightwatchman, barked to attention, emptied a pistol at the poisoners, saved the safe, could not save faithful, greedy Jack, Fido...
Investigation of the affairs of defunct Caldwell & Co. (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.) has revealed many a skin-tight alliance between the banking interests of Rogers Clark Caldwell and the newspaper-political interests of his crony, Col. Luke Lea. Last week a federal grand jury pried into the affairs not of the big Caldwell-controlled bank of Tennessee but the smaller Holston-Union National Bank of Knoxville which went under early in the storm caused by the failure of Caldwell & Co. What the jury found was not pleasing. Contemplation of it lead to what many southerners had long expected...