Word: gow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love on the Dole (by Ronald Gow & Walter Greenwood; Maurice Barber, producer) was hailed after its London premiere two years ago as a dramatic event of first importance. Last week Manhattan first-nighters were inclined to agree, for once, with their British cousins...
...Royal Highness was safely delivered of a son this morning. The condition of Her Royal Highness and of the infant prince is satisfactory. (Signed) W. Gilliatt, M.D., M.F., F.C.O.G.; A. E. Gow, M.D., F.R., C.P.; H. A. Richards, M.R.C.S., L.R. C.P." Sir John ratified the truth of this statement and the British royal house officially had one more heir...
Thereupon, Counsel Reilly began a long enveloping movement in which he turned up every conceivable suspect of the crime except his client. He pointed the finger of suspicion at the Lindberghs' butler and cook, the Ollie Whatelys, at Nurse Gow and her summertime boy friend "Red" Johnson, at the Detroit Purple Gang, at Violet Sharpe, the Morrows' maid who killed herself, and most vigorously at "Jafsie" Condon...
Nurse. Betty Gow took the stand after Col. Lindbergh. As a prosecution witness the 30-year-old Scotswoman added little but tears to Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping...
...Miss Gow collapsed when she left the witness stand after cross examination, but Counsel Reilly was feeling better than he had felt all week. Basing his case on the theory that the crime "was conceived in the Lindbergh home itself," he had scored a point in demonstrating that the household servants of the Colonel's mother-in-law knew of the Lindbergh family's movements immediately before the crime. Having narrowed the guilty crew down to "four people in a roadhouse," Counsel Reilly had already dramatically told reporters that he would reveal their identity this week...