Word: inquest
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...revelations which cast a new angle on the Insull situation last week, which made Samuel Insull seem worse than an old man crushed by circumstances beyond his control, came as the result of a five-month inquest into the books of Insull Utility Investments, Middle West Utilities and Mississippi Valley Utilities by Arthur Andersen & Co.. accountants. In addition to juggled income statements and the loan to Martin Insull, the backwash included the following facts...
...favor of Mrs. Dorothy Bern. An insurance broker said that ten years ago "Bern told me of his wife who was then ... an inmate of an institution for the insane in New York State." Paul Bern's brother Henry, who flew from Newark to Hollywood to attend the inquest, declared that Miss Millette had been a sanitarium patient. His sister, Mrs. William Marcus, said Paul lived with Miss Millette. "brought her into the family as his wife," but never married her. Fat-faced Brother Henry revealed that the real name of the Bern family, changed when Paul began...
...Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given...
...there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
...herself screaming out the window. Her husband. Peter Siaperas, 34, a confectioner, told police he had accused his wife of premarital unchastity. He said she had admitted the truth, become hysterical, thrown her engagement and wedding rings into a trunk and jumped. The police released Confectioner Siaperas, but the inquest went on. The bride's honor in question, her family invoked church law, called three doctors. Meanwhile, Dr. Peter N. Hatzis examined the body of Mrs. Siaperas, pronounced her virgo intacta...