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Last fortnight the family asked police aid. New York thus learned that in addition to judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal evolving from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench...
...Danbury, Conn., Roland Hart awakened to find himself in a gaol cell. Making out what appeared to be a man hanging from a beam, Hart screamed, brought attendants who cut his drunken cellmate down. Then Roland Hart was told that an unknown had found him asleep in his auto on a grade crossing, had flagged a train just in time to save his life. Said Hart: "I'm glad I could give some one an even break...
...locomotive and raced off down the track with another locomotive full of angry police in pursuit. Suddenly Perry reversed his engine, opened fire, pursued his pursuers until he ran out of steam. He escaped, held up a farmer, stole a horse, was captured by a posse, sentenced to gaol for "as long as he could see." In gaol, he tried to blind himself with needles, was called insane...
...boisterous Bill & Lem were not clapped into a Moscow gaol last week. Higher Soviet authorities, closely attuned to U. S. white opinion, suspended the sentence of the lower court, ordered Bill & Lem deported, "because they are persons imbued with the spirit of race prejudice and therefore dangerous, menacing persons to have in Russia...
...Bedford Jr., 30, son of Vice President Bedford of the Vacuum Oil Co.; by his own hand, in a dollar-a-night Brooklyn hotel. When only 19, Bedford came home from the War mentally sick. The same year he stole a car to escape from a physician, went to gaol in Indiana, later to a New York asylum from which he ran away. Ashamed to go home, although his family used every possible persuasion, he wandered, hid himself in crowds, spent the past five years in Brooklyn slums...