Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lyle Womack (Mr. Ruth Elder) last week won a fight in Panama. Fighting under the name of Jeff Ross, which he likes better than any of his other names, he is said to have beaten all the amateur and professional middleweights in the Canal Zone. When he is not fighting he works in the distillery of his uncle who has the biggest bourbon trade in Panama...
Recently, Mr. Lyle, thus afflicted, was out riding with one William Weaver, who was demonstrating to him an automobile. Suddenly Mr. Weaver was prodded with a pistol by Mr. Lyle, who ordered him out of the car, and then drove swiftly away with it, leaving Demonstrator Weaver irate, helpless...
Police captured Mr. Lyle, and brought him before Magistrate William Croak of the Stapleton Police Court, Staten Island. Attorneys for Mr. Lyle secured his release on $5,000 bail to have a sinus operation. Dr. John McCoy of Manhattan operated for sinus trouble, removed the inflamed infected tonsils, studied the intestinal disorders, the low blood pressure. The five abscessed teeth were pulled...
Last week Mr. Lyle's attorneys declared that the infirmities of their client had caused a partial cessation of the blood circulation in his brain, this in turn causing him to act as he did toward Demonstrator William Weaver. They asked that the charges against their client be dismissed. Soon District Attorney Albert Fach announced that he was investigating the case thoroughly, intimated that he would approve dismissal...
Should the charges of first degree robbery and felonious assault be proved against Mr. Lyle, conviction would carry sentence of 15 years' imprisonment...