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...Newport, Monmouthshire, England, a scratch from her husband's toenail in bed was stated at the inquest to have caused the death of Mrs. Ada Stevens, wife of a nailmaker...
...find out what she meant when she said, in speaking of the attack: ''They would have gone through with their bargain just the same," to substantiate her reported statement that she had been unhappy with her husband. He announced she would not be called at the inquest. He explained: "By calling her now she could not be asked to waive immunity." As the inquest began without her, Prosecutor Blue by his sharp questioning of the policeman to whom she first told her story indicated that he was seeking to build a case against her. But before the inquest...
...they mourned, wished they could do something about it. Kip's chance came when his employer, Banker Fessenden, went into the 'legging racket and had liquor run ashore of nights under Kip's unsleeping nose. One night the watchman was shot. At the coroner's inquest Kip told all. When he lost his job Maggie May became a Prohibition lecturer. She enthralled bigger & bigger crowds, telling about the degeneration of her father. Not to be outdone. Kip got a job as Prohibition agent, visited many a Manhattan speakeasy to collect evidence. At first sipping liquor made...
...assassinates'' his victim. The lights are turned on and the "detectives" examine the "corpse," question the witnesses. All are bound to tell the truth except the "murderer," who may lie indiscriminately. When the "detectives" are through with him, the "corpse" may rise and enjoy his own inquest, according to the theory that dead men tell no tales. At Sir Willmott's party the "murderer" was not detected by the "detectives...
Last week's inquest into the revolver suicide of rich young William E. Swift of Chicago at Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles' expensive Manhattan sanitarium (TIME, Aug. 25) gave Dr. Cowles opportunity to answer nasty rumors about his professional conduct, particularly about his administration of narcotics to patients...