Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carlos, Nicaragua, on Feb. 23, 1894, according to U. S. Immigration records, French and German parents gave birth to one Jean Dee Jarnette, who was brought to California in 1910, ran off to sea two years later. In 1923, after Jean Dee Jarnette had roamed restlessly over Europe, Australia and the South Seas, he was convicted of rape and sent to California's lone Reformatory. In 1931, he was again convicted of rape and carrying concealed weapons, sent to San Quentin. There he confided to his cellmate an ambition that had slowly been forming in his mind...
When middle-aged Jean Dee Jarnette was released last April, his first act was to take out duplicate seaman's papers under the names of Jack Morgan and Wes S. Glenn. As Jack Morgan he shortly turned up in New Orleans, married a pretty 17-year-old laborer's daughter named Lillian Casanova, took her back to California where the pair led a hand-to-mouth existence working as bellhop and chambermaid in hotels...
...miles to San Pedro with the Aafje in tow. The message also brought out a cutter with Special Agent W. H. Osborne of the Department of Justice on board. For the story the, six half-starved survivors of the Aafje had to tell involved, if not the piracy Jean Dee Jarnette had dreamed of, an example of the grave Federal crime of murder...
...Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
Nearly two months ago the music of Jean Sibelius' Origin of Fire, carefully wrapped in two separate packages, was mailed by Leipzig Publishers Breitkopf & Haertel to Boston Symphony's Conductor Koussevitzky. Last week, with the U. S. premiere of the lamed Finn's work scheduled for immediate performance, Boston Symphony officials, still awaiting the appearance of one of the packages, telegraphed frantically to Leipzig. The publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts...