Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shocked at the falsehoods, Robert Brown and Conner Bates, assistant prosecutors, withdrew from the case, announced their belief that Wright, innocent, had been "framed." Judge J. C. Hobbs let the case go to the jury, warned them against a death penalty verdict. The jury found Wright guilty, fixed punishment at ten years' imprisonment...
...Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously...
...sister Athol went to Manhattan and lived in a furnished room on 9th Avenue and 59th Street, eating their meals in delicatessens and out of paper bags set out on the top of their trunk. Norma posed for advertisements, worked now and then as an extra. After Lewis J. Selznick gave her a good part in The Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife of Irving Thalberg, production manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she lives in one of the biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly...
...million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz von und zu Liechtenstein. Due de Troppeau, Prince et Due de Jägerndorf, celebrated in his castle by conferring upon his twice-wedded wife the proud title "Countess of Vaduz...
Carl Geores of Kenilworth, N. J., motored with his Maltese cat to his summer cottage at Mariaville, N. Y., 210 miles. The cat walked back to Kenilworth...