Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnera's (see p. 22). Good shots: nice little Georgie Bassett doing a minuet at the birthday party while Penrod and Sam are fighting upstairs; the In-or-In Club preparing to initiate a new member. Bad shot: Penrod whittling with his forefinger on the back of his knife blade...
...County announced he believed Mrs. Collings' story; District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County said he did not. Mrs. Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were advanced. On the Penguin were found bloodstains, a broken milk bottle, a broken oar, a revolver and knife which Mr. Collings had not attempted to use. In the boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor was missing. A canoe in which Mrs. Collings might have been carried off was found. Six days later...
...large canvas shoes were found in the launch with Mrs. Collings. Fred J. Voos, president of the Bridgeport baseball club, told police he had borrowed a similar blanket early in the summer, that later it had been stolen from his boat with a pair of canvas shoes and a knife. At just that time he had passed a boat with Penguin painted on its stern. Seeking other Penguins, Prosecutor Blue learned that there are at least ten of them in the waters around New York. Thicker grew the Mystery of Long Island Sound...
Shattuck is a name to be dreaded by bandits and thieves. In April 1922 four cutthroats entered the Manhattan home of Mr. & Mrs Albert R. Shattuck, robbed them, locked them with eight servants in the wine cellar. With a pocket knife and a dime the prisoners worked their way out, close to death from suffocation. Mr. Shattuck vowed to capture the criminals. In 1924 the last one was captured, was sentenced to 45 to 65 years in Sing Sing. Mr. Shattuck died in 1925, avenged.* The name Shattuck again made news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert...
...canoe, asked to be taken with a wounded companion to South Norwalk, Conn. Mr. Collings demurred. The men boarded the Penguin, started it, ordered Mrs. Collings down into the cabin. Later Mr. Collings went to the cabin, kissed his sleeping daughter, went out without taking his pistol or knife which lay there. After some time the Penguin stopped. Mrs. Collings thought they were now off the Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle, a man's voice saying: "Don't tie his hands too tight." She heard her husband cry: "They're putting me overboard...