Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WISE CHILD-Farcical results of a fake pregnancy...
Sensational evidence was provided by Inspector Joseph J. Donovan of the Bureau of Criminal Identification who declared that his subordinates had learned that the hold-up had been a fake. Alleged reason: Ciro Terranova had negotiated with a Chicago gunman to kill two famed gangsters, Frankie Marlow, who was found with three shots through his head near a Flushing, L. I., cemetery (TIME, July 8) and Frankie Yale, who was riddled while automobile driving in Brooklyn (TIME. July 9, 1928). Terranova had signed a contract agreeing to pay $20,000 for the two killings. He had delivered...