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Manhattan police last week arrested nine men for selling narcotics, chiefly heroin, on the streets. The arrests indicated that a "dope ring" had parceled out the island to pedlers, whose sales aggregated $100,000 weekly. A few days before these arrests the police discovered the ring's arsenal-guns...
Mr. Tuttle was U. S. district attorney in Manhattan from 1927 until last month when he resigned to become Republican candidate for Governor of New York (TIME, Oct. 6). Until his appointment as district attorney his interest in narcotics was remote. His job gave him two particular chores - prosecution of...
Last week portions of two hemispheres were stirred by rumors of a big U. S. gangland war. Prospective war zone: the operative territory of famed Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond. This territory begins in Brooklyn, N. Y., where henchmen of Diamond and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins are blamed for periodic battles with...
When questioning ended, Dr. Cowles, who is a son-in-law of William Gibbs Mc-Adoo, dictated a formal statement: "I have welcomed the opportunity of coming to this investigation. I've especially invited the opportunity because there has been in the public press and in the questioning here...
Actress Jeanne Eagels, restless and intemperate, died last October in Manhattan at the Park Avenue Hospital, a private psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror revealed, for the first time, the official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was...