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...August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal...
...over and straightened him out?ten. He heard that some of the men in the gang were dead now, too. A fellow named Weissman out in Kansas City. Another in Philadelphia. Another in Atlantic City. So now some men come to the ice' plant last Tuesday looking for him, Gobel. He was the State's star witness to the first murder. So Policeman Weigand had been sent there with his big blue revolver to keep Gobel safe...
...cold. Several times Gobel got up to go out in the empty, soot-black courtyard for air. Then he would come back to clatter coal into his boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with...
...Adolf Gobel, Inc. sells 1,248 meat items, is chiefly famed for its frankfurters, is ranked as a big company by virtue of its sales ($46,000,000 last year) if not for its earnings ($131,298 last year). President is Frank Martin Firor, 58, who became Gobel's head in 1927 when it merged with George Kern Inc., for which he was working. Founder Adolf Gobel died four years...
President Firor is delighted with the beer & ham campaign, plans to use it throughout the land. He has selected the Woman's Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment as the organization to which the Gobel anti-Prohibition contributions go. He would not say last week how much cash each can of hash would yield...