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Born. To George Isaac Hughes, 96, Confederate veteran accepted by the American Medical Association as an authentic father (TIME, Nov. 11); and Libby Hill Hughes, 28; a daughter, Mary Gertrude; in New Bern, N. C. Their other child is Franklin Roosevelt Hughes, aged 17 months...
...trial for "criminal conspiracy" at Kahoka, Mo. was Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, acquitted last autumn of having helped kidnap Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly in St. Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard...
...Magnin & Co. was Mary Ann Magnin's husband Isaac, who emigrated from The Netherlands to the U. S. just before the Civil War, fought as a Confederate cavalryman, turned pushcart peddler in New Orleans. With some savings, he went to London to look for his long-lost father, found his bride in the search. Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential...
...Isaac Magnin gave up carving at an early date, took a hand in the store's finances, but by the century's turn he had lost interest in the business. A linguist and amateur philosopher who quoted continually from Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward), he used to pedal his bicycle around & around Golden Gate Park, pockets crammed with Marxian tracts and pamphlets. Before he died in 1907 Mary...
...behavior of Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, who also claimed to be the mother of the baby, Commissioner Limbaugh found much to suspect. The red-headed modiste, with two arrests for larceny against her, had been implicated in the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley in 1931. Two of the men with whom Mrs. Muench was alleged to have engineered this snatch were sent to prison for long terms. The trial of Mrs. Muench, sister of a Missouri Supreme Court Justice, was frequently delayed to let public sentiment against her cool...