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Lack of clearly defined police jurisdiction caused confusion from the start. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County announced he believed Mrs. Collings' story; District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County said he did not. Mrs. Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were advanced. On the Penguin were found bloodstains, a broken milk bottle, a broken oar, a revolver and knife which Mr. Collings had not attempted to use. In the boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor...
...potentialities of the strange story as hot-weather reading were in nowise chilled by Nassau County's publicity-wise District Attorney Elvin Newton Edwards, who had just finished the noisy business of sending hare-brained Francis ("Two-Gun") Crowley to the electric chair (TIME, June 15). Soon after Starr Faithfull's body was found, the district attorney announced she had been killed by two men. one prominent in politics, her body taken out in a boat and thrown overboard. Next day he declared that the girl was knocked unconscious aboard a boat, then thrown into the water. By then...
...achievement extolled by Subscriber Merritt was that of District Attorney Elvin Newton Edwards of Nassau County, L. I., N. Y. In an official report he declared that of 210 persons tried before the Grand Jury of his county last year for maintaining public nuisances (in this case speakeasies), 205 pleaded guilty or were convicted. Cost of getting evidence: $50.000. Total of fines imposed: $70,000. Profit to Nassau County from these Prohibition activities...
...them, Sailor Burren, Joe Elvin, are waiting to be hanged. Finally the 120 days are up: Blink and Tully are released, go their separate ways...