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Still, like the Romans' feathered friends, the smokeys can help assure a restful night. A Los Angeles fireman who bought several battery-powered smoke detectors for his home put them unopened in the basement. Later that night they all erupted in wild ululation. A fire had started. The family survived...
...defense table, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a New York fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 54, a limousine-service operator, sobbed. The jury pronounced both guilty on the charge of extortion. That verdict will almost certainly mean prison for the two Irish Americans-but shorter terms than a kidnaping conviction would have carried. Thus ended one of the strangest criminal trials of this decade...
According to Crowley, the latest mover at the Paperback Booksmith, aside from "Humboldt's Gift" by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, has been a book titled the "Cat Catalogue" by Judy Fireman. "I guess it is about everything you always wanted to know about cats," Crowley says. "I don't know why it's so popular. I haven't read it, but I suppose you'd have to say people like cats. We can't keep enough of the books on the table...
More Bizarre. But the principal defendant, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a New York City fireman, told another, much more bizarre story. Lynch insisted that some time before the supposed abduction he met young Sam in a bar and began a homosexual relationship with him; eventually, says Lynch, Bronfman blackmailed him into joining in a fake kidnaping scheme aimed at extorting money from his father. The second defendant, Dominic Byrne, 54, a limousine-service operator, claimed that Lynch "duped" him into assisting in Bronfman's disappearance...
...investigation were introduced at a hearing, the judge threw out the conviction. A new trial was planned, but last summer the original prosecutor died of a heart attack. His replacement was going through the files when he came upon a startling piece of evidence: a Canaan fireman and his wife had seen Reilly driving in downtown Canaan at 9:40 p.m. and they had told police about it. Though that substantially backed Reilly's story, the defense was never informed of the statement...