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Latest find was newscasting Forger Bonnie Bondurant who as a rule confines his remarks to life within the walls, like the embarkation of chain gangs: "Early this morning a number of boys left . . . for an extended camping trip. Incidental to the camping, a few problems in highway construction will be worked out." Quipped he in a recent commentary on outside events: "I see where President Roosevelt is seeking a third term. I can't see why. I've had two and that's enough...
...many cases, it is shown, the counterfeit can be detected from the original by the clumsiness and inferiority of the forger's hand. In other cases, modern scientific methods have proven valuable...
...YORK-Fuchrer Fritz Kuhn, who made merry with funds of the German-American Bund, was sentenced today to 2 1/2 to 5 years imprisonment in Sing Sing as "an ordinary small-time forger and thief," at a hearing which forecast perjury charges against other Bund officials who justified...
...years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...
While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...