Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieut. Frank K. Johnson of the Chicago police and Laurence Ryan of the State's Attorney's office had gone to Toronto to bring Martin Insull back to U. S. justice. At 3 a. m. on their return trip their train rolled across the U. S.-Canadian border and came to a stop in Detroit. U. S. Immigration Inspector Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long...
...Ryan grew calmer. They and their prisoner dressed. Accompanied by Inspector Als they went to the Book-Cadillac hotel to spend the remainder of the night. At 9 a. m. they appeared in a shabby little immigration court. There a board of inquiry decided within 15 minutes that Martin Insull was likely to become a public charge and could not be admitted to the U. S. The board however consented to parole him in custody of the Chicago police until his trial...
Twenty-four hours later in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building a clerk in Judge Finnegan's court room called "The State of Illinois v. Martin J. Insull, Samuel Insull...
...stepped Brother Martin, a superannuated shell of a man, white-haired, white-faced, stolidly resigned. Only one argument arose while his $50,000 bail was being arranged. Prosecutor O'Hora asked that the prisoner be ordered to stay in Illinois. Insull's attorney objected: "He wants to go to his daughter's home across the state line in Morocco, Ind. It's the only place he has to live...
When he saw his name in headlines Martin Insull turned to his son-in-law and wryly observed, "At least I have pushed Sam off the front pages...