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...issue of TIME on pp. 14 and 15 in an article headed "Robbers' Den about the arrest of Carl Rettich for a Post Office robbery in Fall River, you make the following statement, "Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
Senator Gerry has never at any time been present at the Rettich residence as a guest or otherwise...
...Senator Gerry sincere apologies. If he attended parties' at the Warwick Neck estate, it was while the late Col. Felix Wendelschaefer used it as a summer home, before the property passed into the hands of Suspect Rettich...
When customs agents boarded Bootlegger Carl Rettich's yacht Prudence in Boston harbor three years ago. they searched in vain for contraband until one chanced to unscrew an electric light bulb. At once panels slid back, revealing thousands of dollars worth of liquor. In Rettich's Warwick house the raiders scraped some whitewash off a brick pillar in the cellar, found and turned a key. A great slab of concrete rose quietly out of the floor, opening the way to a subcellar. Steps led from the subcellar to a huge vault in which were found three machine guns...
...Carl Rettich gave himself up early last week. With the arrest of the chief and 20-odd henchmen, authorities felt that the solution of the Fall River case was only a beginning. They planned to prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened...