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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Conspirator Thompson: "Judge Friend's decision is beyond my comprehension...
What confounded Justice was Mrs. Collins' new affidavit, to the effect that her "confession" was a document prepared for her by one John M. Timmons, a retired merchant, friend of Ben Bess. Timmons paid her $50, she said, for signing the document. She, illiterate, had not read it. She thought it just meant she forgave Ben Bess "for the wrong he had done her." Mrs. Collins, now threatened with perjury proceedings, maintained as at the original trial that Ben Bess raped...
After hearing Mrs. Collins, the grand jury sent Ben Bess back to jail "for safekeeping." His friend, Timmons, said that Mrs. Collins was lying again; said he had read the "confession" to Mrs. Collins in the presence...
...Ladder is the current Broadway play with the longest run. On the last day of June it will reach its 660th performance. In the duration of its run legends have grown up about the members of The Ladder's cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...
...position of Packard in the fine car field is largely the work of Alvan Macauley. He began as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. A good friend, Edward Rector,* recommended him to the National Cash Register Co. as a patent attorney. There, he soon turned himself into an inventor and engineer. Later, he went to the American Arithmometer Co. and turned it into the potent Burroughs Adding Machine Co. In 1910, when Packard was making four-cylinder cars, 2,000 a year, Mr. Macauley became general manager. James Ward