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Chief Robert C. Johnson and Officer Howard Ferguson of the Roanoke police stood secret watch near the stump, ceaselessly for six days & nights. They saw nothing. When they withdrew and Chief Johnson communicated with the extortionists, via the stump, as "John J. Jones," agent for Col. Lindbergh, answers came. By bargaining the tribute was cut from $50,000 to $25,000, to $17,000. A check for the latter amount was finally left in the stump and next day Joe Bryant presented it for payment at the Roanoke bank designated. His story when arrested was that he had "just happened...
...yard breast-stroke Won by M. V. Leventritt '36 (Brooks); second, N. A. Ferguson '36 (Brooks); third. T. M. Burke '36 (Kirkland). Time...
Born. To Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, Columbia (S. C.) murderess whose death sentence was commuted last fortnight to life imprisonment; a daughter. Weight: / Ib. Name: Frances Joan Snipes. The judge: "The child, of course, is not sentenced to the penitentiary." The hospital: "What to do with the baby is the penitentiary's problem, not ours...
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ERVINE (St. John) John Ferguson...