Word: gaston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...District of Columbia's Supreme Court last week Gaston Bullock Means, national rascal, stood with arms akimbo and a smile on his dimpled face, listening to his third sentence to Federal prison. For duping rich Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby (TIME, May 16), Rascal Means was given ten years imprisonment. For duping her out of $4,000 expense money he got another five years. The terms were...
Sucking cough-drops, Gaston Bullock...
...says, he served with the German spy system in the U. S., once received $1,000,000 from a German agent at a midnight rendezvous in Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan. Further in his past lies an astounding record of crime and near-crime. At one time or another, Gaston Means, a sleuth by profession, has been indicted for breach of promise, impersonating an officer, fraud, bribery, forgery, murder. He once told a Senate committee that ''being indicted" was his business. Last November he was arrested for beating his wife...
...great surprise to Gaston Means when a U. S. deputy marshal and a special Department of Justice agent stopped his expensive, chauffeured car on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue one day last week and took him into custody...
...lost her firstborn; 9-year-old Vinson, the "Hundred-Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace the Lindbergh baby. A conference was arranged attended by Captain Emory S. Land, U. S. N., Col. Lindbergh's cousin, and Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Church...