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...afternoon of March 1, that neither was Hauptmann. He had turned his information over to the police next day, he said. When asked to pick out the officer he had talked to, Harding picked the wrong one. It was then revealed that he was a thrice-convicted felon...
Breaks from prison, both righteous and illegitimate, are not lacking to this volume. Jack Sheppard, an 18th century felon of note, laughed at locksmiths and was the beadle's despair of his time. His uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts...
...Europe. Summering at Lake of Geneva, he saved Mrs. Robert Thompson Pell from drowning (TIME, July 11). Last week, wearing his customary chamois gloves, he arrived back in Manhattan. He would celebrate in the autumn the tenth anniversary of the Children's Concerts, he said. And, his felon nearly gone, he would give piano recitals, resume with Toscanini on Oct. 20 the "Artist's Life" performance which has been postponed these three and one-half years...
...Atlanta. In 1925, largely as a result of a political feud between Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and embellish the whole with a 500-word history of the U. S. by Calvin Coolidge...