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...Government then brought mail fraud charges. What prolonged the trial was the thoroughness of its Federal prosecutor, Jacob J. Rosenblum. The defense introduced 30 wit nesses, the prosecution 68. It took two clerks to keep the 941 exhibits straight. After three months one of the two alter nate jurors died...
...known horse named Shem won a race at Havre de Grace. Investigation showed that the horse was not Shem but a four-year-old named Aknahton, disguised with dye. Havre de Grace officials satisfied themselves that gamblers had arranged the dyeing, suspended nine of them, including notorious Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond. They traced the career of Aknahton to a small town in Indiana, where he dropped out of sight...
...Very rapidly: "Thirty-two dollars bid; 32 dollars bid: 32, doo, doo, doo, diddy, doo dollars bid. . . . Thirty-eight dollars bid; thirty-eight dollars bid; 38, nate, nate, nate dollars bid. . . . All done-sole...
...Nate DeLue, assistant business manager of the Board of Education, by a cash check for $150 which he had endorsed.¶ State Senator Harry W. Starr, onetime city prosecutor, onetime election commissioner, by two checks of $200 each. He said: "They were given me ... for legal services which I rendered." ¶ Onetime State Senator George Van Lent, by two vouchers. ¶ The late Sergeant Martin C. Mulvihill, "world's greatest policeman," famed hero of many a dangerous arrest, by a $500 note signed while he was on the police force...
...State's witnesses were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...