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...also in 1930, ill luck overtook Dr. Doyle. U. S. District Attorney Charles Henry Tuttle, then a Republican gubernatorial aspirant, tried to smoke out Tammany corruption by charging the retired horse doctor with income tax evasion. Prime purpose of the charge, of course, was to find the person or persons who had made Dr. Doyle's special pleadings so invincible and with whom he may have split some $2,000,000 worth of fees. A Manhattan jury dismissed one of the two income tax charges against him. The other case hung fire. The Tuttle investigation into the Scandals...
...turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis and was threatening to go to work when fate overtook him in the manner which tradition prescribes for gigolos. The husband of a woman he had been comforting all winter came home one evening and threw him over the parapet of a penthouse. The scene in which he lies crushed to death on the pavement...
Toward midnight Boatswain R. Anderson of the Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. 215 sighted the Sabalo's wavering beacon, overtook her. What happened next was a matter of strange dispute. Capt. Kelley later charged that C. G. 215 ignored his plea for help and steamed away. Boatswain Anderson insisted his offer of aid had been declined, that he had trailed the Sabalo which, he said, steamed for about an hour with its searchlight turned...
...attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell's "bauble," restored it to its place...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...