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...traffic lights. At Fifth Avenue & 30th Street, site of the old Holland House whence Tobacconist Sorg started his run, Mrs. Dibble set a smart pace. The Valiant clattered through Manhattan traffic to South Ferry in 29 minutes, sailed across to Staten Island, changed horses, took the Tottenville Ferry to Perth Amboy...
...robbery in Brooklyn last summer (TIME, Sept. 3), Day by day grew the list of crimes of which the gang was suspected: a mail truck robbery of $100,000 in Warren, Ohio; another of $51,000 in Butler, Pa.; an American Railway Express truck robbery of $10,000 in Perth Amboy, N. J.; three Massachusetts bank robberies totaling $51,500; a $200,000 jewel robbery in Magnolia. Mass, last summer; the O'Connell kidnapping in Albany in 1933; the disappearance of New York's Judge Crater five years...
...Wilentz, the State's Attorney General who took over the prosecution of the Hauptmann case as soon as it broke last autumn. Small, dark, shrewd 40-year-old Prosecutor Wilentz is not only a good orator and jury handler but an able politician as well. Coming from Perth Amboy in Middlesex County, however, he will have no great local influence with the jurors in Hunterdon County. Last week he charged an attempt by somebody to tamper with potential jurors by circulating a pamphlet to the effect that "Aviator's Baby Was Never Kidnapped or Murdered...
Gloucester arrived in Australian waters early in October on H. M. S. Sussex, which dropped him off at Perth, capital of Western Australia. Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature...
...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...