Word: manhunt
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...passengers, was caught at last. Detailed at Ellis Island for deportation, he gulled immigration officials into sending him to Manhattan under guard to get his wardrobe. When, the guard passed out in a speakeasy, remorseful but following expediency Gerguson abandoned the guard. The U. S. Government, irritated, made a manhunt of it. The newspapers made a field-day. Twice smuggled out of Manhattan by friends, Gerguson twice returned to listen to the hound music, lurking dramatically in speakeasies. The publicity made him a Name but denuded him as a Prince. In France he served his terms...
...before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when the two bomb-mailers were there, added descriptive details. A manhunt by Federal as well as State authorities began, focusing on antagonists in the U. S. of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy...
...mother a horsewoman without the money to be horsey. Georgie was brought up to be ignorantly innocent, to hope that the right man would come along some day. But the War had left England a million men short, and Georgie was not attractive enough to win out in the manhunt. She tried to be in love with Purfleet, an intellectual light-weight who was cautiously attracted by her massive virginity, but as soon as marriage was in the wind Purfleet showed a clean pair of heels. Georgie's big chance came when Geoffrey, a stupid but eligible young planter...
County officers, State troopers and Ford Motor Co. service men mobilized for a manhunt. Two Negroes gave them warm clues. One said he had dreamed that three men did the murder. Later he had seen David Blackstone, a strapping Negro hot tamale peddler, and inquired: "How come you cut your hand, Hot Tamale?" whereupon Blackstone had begun to shake from head to foot. The other informer gave the police a pistol, said it had come from Blackstone's landlord. Before daybreak Blackstone had been arrested with Fred Smith, white ex-convict. All day they withstood questioning, finally broke down...
Result of this old-style manhunt: discovery of MacDonald, now a telephone operator in a Baltimore apartment house. A Baltimore couple recognized the Scripps-Howard picture as their onetime boarder, "Mr. Mac," who night after night sleeplessly paced the floor. He was arrested, held at a police station "for investigation, suspected of being wanted by the California authorities." Then he summoned a lawyer, issued a statement: "I never saw Mooney until . . . told by an officer that this was [he]. . . . My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in sending...