Word: denver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week Charles Boettcher II, 31, wealthy aviation acquaintance of Col. Lindbergh's, was kidnapped one midnight as he stepped from his automobile at his Denver home. His wife promptly offered to pay the $60,000 ransom for his release...
...Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken $800,000 out of Kansas when he bumped into the late Bartender Tammen and was persuaded that Denver was ripe for a killing...
...which lawyers for his enemy, the Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, promised to prove in the libel suit (Bonfils v. News) that was pending when Death came. According to those promises: Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils...
Upon his $800,000 Lottery stake Bonfils pyramided fat profits from the Post, from the coal business, mining schemes, oil, real estate, Denver's Empress Theatre (burlesque). He used to tell friends that he was worth $60,000,000. Most Denverites think the correct figure was nearer $10,000,000. Bulk of the fortune was tied up in a family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred...
...been its foremost Republican. Last week Producer Warner announced that he had accepted, not only for himself but for his employes, an invitation to attend President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration. The Warner party's train, which will go to Washington via San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Denver, Akron, McKeesport, New Haven, Bridgeport, and 46 other cities, with 15 or more Warner Brothers performers making personal appearances, will be called "The Forty-Second Street Special...