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...hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun With Fauna | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

Stark evidence appeared last week further to puzzle investigators seeking to untangle the mystery of Long Island Sound, the Collings Case. From the drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On the Penguin ( Cont'd) | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...police jurisdiction caused confusion from the start. District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau County announced he believed Mrs. Collings' story; District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County said he did not. Mrs. Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were advanced. On the Penguin were found bloodstains, a broken milk bottle, a broken oar, a revolver and knife which Mr. Collings had not attempted to use. In the boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor was missing. A canoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On the Penguin ( Cont'd) | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...feet were bound started police searching for a second victim. Mrs. Collings had said the two killers told her husband they had a wounded man with them. N. L. Noteman, the fisherman who found Barbara Collings on the drifting boat, had reported seeing a swimmer sink near the Penguin. When it became apparent that Mrs. Collings had been subjected to an abnormal attack before being left in the launch her attorney advanced the theory that the murder was committed by a lunatic, pointing to the brutality toward Collings, the attack on his wife, the solicitude shown her in leaving blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On the Penguin ( Cont'd) | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Fred J. Voos, president of the Bridgeport baseball club, told police he had borrowed a similar blanket early in the summer, that later it had been stolen from his boat with a pair of canvas shoes and a knife. At just that time he had passed a boat with Penguin painted on its stern. Seeking other Penguins, Prosecutor Blue learned that there are at least ten of them in the waters around New York. Thicker grew the Mystery of Long Island Sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On the Penguin ( Cont'd) | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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