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...CONGRATULATIONS," the cable read, "CAN HARDLY WAIT TO MEET WHAT WE ARE SURE MUST BE THREE AND HALF KILOS DYNAMITE." Frank Kirton, 43, beamed as he read it; his wife had just given birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner- a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguay-mighty handy for smuggling dynamite...
Suspicion deepened into certainty when the police discovered that there were two U.S. citizens-brothers George and Arthur Oppen-living in Gualeguaychú. At 6 o'clock one morning, five husky cops strode into Kirton's bedroom, hauled him off to jail. Not only the Oppens but three members of Argentina's moribund Conservative Party who had also been friendly with Kirton or the Oppens were arrested. For good measure, a few members of the troublesome Radical Party and a Communist or two were also nabbed. In all, 24 men were arrested; all were held incommunicado...
Last week Pilot Joe Kirton, his resignation in, got ready to make his last flight for Hillman Saloon Coaches & Airways Co. (London-Paris). Presently two girls who had been pacing back & forth at Stapleford Airdrome boarded his plane. They sucked nervously at cigarets. Said one: "Darling, wouldn't John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...