Word: queensborough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen, members of the Armor & Arms Club of New York, were about to forge a 16th Century rapier with...
Last week in Queensborough, L. I., Noel Sowley and Elizabeth ("Betty") Ring, lovers, sat parked among trees in an automobile. A man stepped up, demanded papers, shot Sowley dead, escorted Miss Ring to a bus, sent her home. Before Sowley's body had been discovered, the Journal had received, but not yet opened, a letter from "A V 3X" describing the murder...
Immediately 700 police were sent to scour Queensborough. That night, patrolmen dressed as women sat with plainclothesmen in parked cars wherever lovers were known to hold trysts. Suspects were arrested in New York State, New Jersey, even as far away as Philadelphia, but the Misses May and Ring failed to recognize any of them. More wild, coded notes to the police and the Journal kept special police squads rushing about Long Island and Westchester, to no avail...