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...located. Only Dalton, Klein, and Mrs. Diamond insisted he was aboard the Baltic. The Baltic's captain radioed insistently that he was not. New York City authorities cabled his picture and history to Britain. Result: violent British excitement at the approach of a U. S. gangster famed nearly as much as "Scarface Al" Capone himself. At the height of the excitement, the S. S. Belgenland came into Plymouth, England. One of her passengers, registered as "John T. Nolan," said he was Diamond, told newshawks: "I have stomach and liver trouble. . . . The reason of my visit...
When he was alive, swart Gangster Jack Zuta told suspicious Chicago police nothing enlightening about the Lingle murder (TIME, June 23, et seq.). But Jack Zuta dead on a Wisconsin dance floor (TIME, Aug. 11) became an eloquent police informant on many subjects. He left careful records of his business transactions in numerous safe-deposit boxes at various banks. Four of these boxes were unearthed during the past fortnight by Special (Lingle-case) Investigator Pat Roche of the State Attorney's office. Puzzled were police and investigators at finding little Zuta money other than...
...Alderman Dorsey Crowe, by a $500 cash check among Zuta's cancelled vouchers, endorsed with a rubber-stamp "Crowe & Kolb," dissolved firm in which he had been partner. Alderman Crowe last week denied acquaintance with Gangster Zuta...
...Toledo as much as at Simeon Davison Fess. The latter was never a member of the Harding-Daugherty-Jesse Smith inner circle, though party and State loyalty required him to flay the Ohio Gang's critics in his maiden Senate speech. Postmaster General Brown was not a Harding Gangster, either, but he now controls the bulk of the party's patronage...
...police meanwhile progressed slowly in finding Lingle's killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...