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...Fort Worth, Tex., one W. D. May, mail robber and murderer, marched out of his death cell. Beside him, Rev. Aimer Kelly intoned Biblical texts. At the prison washhouse, the procession stopped. Said May: "I've accepted Christ. I'm a changed man." Into a bathtub of cold water he wedged himself. Down under the water Mr. Kelly shoved his head. Said Mr. Kelly: "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Up came Murderer May, prepared to meet his death...
...second half of the book takes the reader into the past. Nicole beautiful 16 year old daughter of an American "robber baron" is brought to Europe suffering from schizophrenia, or split personality, resulting from an Flekiva background if is at a Swiss sanivarnon that she meets Dr.Richard Diver, eventually to marry him. The marriage takes place in face of the warning from the other doctors in the sanitarium that it is impossible to be both husband and psychiatrist and do them both well...
...unsuccessful attempt to hold up Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, a lone robber mortally shot President Henry Marlin Saylor...
...Four men entered Pana, Ill. early one morning last week, ate a good breakfast and then drove on to First National Bank. There they forced the janitor who was washing windows to let them in by a rear door. While one robber directed operations with a submachine gun, another made the assistant cashier open the vault. Having packed $27,600 into two suitcases, the robbers fled. Suspected was Desperado John Dillinger...
...their eggs with a fine silver tube inserted through one hole drilled in the shell. Pressure of air blown in forces the egg's contents out of the hole. If incubation has begun, fine scissors are used to hash the embryo so it will pass out. - ED. Guggenheims & Robber Barons Sirs: In the issue of TIME for March 5 . . . there appears a review of my book, The Robber Barons, and in the closing paragraph thereof the following statement about me: ". . . He wrote The Robber Barons on a fellowship made possible by money from the Guggenheim family - plutocrats not included...