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...obtained a writ of habeas corpus for all three on the grounds that Weiner's "wife was sick and business going to pieces." "You mind your own business," cried terrified Sam Weiner who, with Attorney Foley, had become convinced that his brother was being used as a lethal tool of gangland. Mastermind behind these midnight assaults and court scenes, believed the police, was one Joe Weiner (no kin to Poulterer Sam). Attorney Foley had him indicted with his seven henchmen. It proved easier to indict him than to find him. Police began combing the city, delaying the trial meanwhile...
...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
...abortion. Luckily her parents were away on a holiday, her young brother David was man enough to make the arrangements. But she had to go through it all without Bertin; for that she could not forgive him. When he was shifted to the Western Front, to the lethal chamber of Verdun, Lenore was hardly sorry. Then she discovered she loved him still. To her astonishment her parents changed their minds about the Junkers, about Bertin too. By a lot of management, a little luck, she got her man home for a four-day leave, married him good & proper. Their honeymoon...
...bout was no natural for Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with...
...Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt. Fagan's boat, the shark attacked again, was harpooned to prove the story...