Word: santos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demo-Christian candidate for Florence's mayoralty two years ago, he blasted the Communists loose from a five-year grip on the city's administration. To poverty-ridden Florence he has brought low-cost housing, sanitary improvements, tree planting, free concerts. Florentines sometimes call him Il Santo (The Saint...
...September day in 1510, two ships put out into the Caribbean from Santo Domingo (now Ciudad Trujillo), capital of the Spanish empire in the New World. They were headed for Urabá, on the South American mainland, with 150 settlers eager for land and gold. On one ship was a stowaway: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, an adventurer who came aboard in a provisions barrel to escape his creditors...
...miles from San Francisco, as a suspect in the murder of Edmund Hansen, one of several recent killings in the past two years around the gold mines of the Mother Lode country in the Sierras. The police suspected a gang of hoodlums led by an ex-convict named Jack Santo, now on trial in Los Angeles for another murder. Boles, who had often been seen with members of the Santo gang, denied knowing anything about the Hansen murder, but repeatedly asked to see Chronicle Reporter Freeman. Finally the police agreed...
...Within an hour, she had his full confession, involving the Santo gang just as the police had suspected. Reporter Freeman knew just how to keep her story exclusive; George dictated his confession to the police but held off signing it for a day. When the Chronicle broke its Page One exclusive, the police were deluged with calls from Hearst's rival Examiner and later the Call-Bulletin. There was no confession yet, newsmen were correctly told. For two days the Chronicle played Bernice Freeman's beat, until Boles finally signed the confession...
...feverishly set out to try to solve another in the series of murders, the killing of a grocer and three children in a $7,000 payroll robbery. Hearst men got the four-year-old daughter of the grocer, the only survivor, to identify the killer as one of the Santo gang. Then the Chronicle went to work and proved the identification a fake. The Hearstlings had shown the girl the picture with the lower half of his face covered, and under such circumstances the girl's mother said her daughter would call anyone...