Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other charges are pending against them. The three had just been indicted by the Federal Government for using the mails to extort, were about to be prosecuted for robbing an oil man of $26. Their life terms in theory had thereby become life terms in fact. The trio: James Kirk, brain; Roy Williams and Larry Kerrigan, brawn, in the abduction of William F. Gettle of Arcadia (TIME...
...Arthur Brisbane, visiting there, stepped back into his favorite role of reporter for the day. He went to the Hall of Justice, spent four and a half hours with the prisoners in the case, wrote live columns instead of one for his syndicate next day. After interviewing Kidnappers Kirk, Kerrigan & Williams (see p. 16), Reporter Brisbane met their two women and melted. Wrote...
Four days came and went and Mr. Gettle was still missing, while officials, friends, family fumbled in the dark to make contact with his abductors. On the fifth day police traced telephone calls to a Los Angeles apartment, arrested one James Kirk and a woman who said she was his wife. Kirk sent them to a house in La Crescenta, few miles from the Arcadia estate. There they seized two other suspects, let one slip away. But they found and held fast to unharmed William F. Gettle...
Albert G. Hale '36, John F. Kirk 1G.B., Robert S. Chafee '36, and John B. Bayley '37 will take part in the broad compromise finals at 3.30 o'clock...
Broad comps: first heat won by Albert G. Hale '36 (4:10 4-5): second heat won by John F. Kirk IGB (4:35 3-5); third heat won by Robert S. Chafee "36 (4:22), John B. Bayley '37, second...