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...Quentin prison in California, Harry Garbutt of Chicago sat in the death cell awaiting the noose which was scheduled to end his life that morning for the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Lee Hunn in Pasadena in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Human | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Farmingdale, L. I., of which she became a member. She reminded them that the Guild was not a sewing circle and each member must present two knitted garments a year to some hospital patient unable to knit. She spoke on the seventh anniversary of the death of her son Quentin in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Affairs Notes, Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...robbers, obviously a ringleader and his confederate, must have grown tired of twirling their sombreros on a moving picture set, and rushed forth to prove that the West is still a place where the male population is as advertised. Some reports describe the men as escaped convicts from San Quentin Prison, but nobody will believe that. They quite plainly are re-incarnations of the spirit of the James boys, who have set out to recoup their fortunes in the only time-honored and accepted Western method. Easterners travelling in the West have long been under the impression that the only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALIFORNIA COMES | 5/7/1925 | See Source »

...Alexander of 167 East 74th Street, Manhattan, gave a party. The oldest of her guests was 13 and the youngest two were five. Mrs. Alexander is the mother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Her guests were: Grace, 13; Theodore, III, 10; Cornelius, 9; Quentin, 5 (children of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.); Edith, 9 (daughter of Ethel Roosevelt Derby); Kermit, Jr., 9; Willard, 7; Clochet, 5 (children of Kermit Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eight Grandchildren | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

...feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand: "Your devoted Theodore" and "In haste, your devoted Theodore and Quentin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eight Grandchildren | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

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