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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story as it reached me is that Durham & Co. imported this animal at a great cost from the Pampas, after search for a bull on whose side was a "perfect map of the United States...
Convicted. John Hughes Curtis of Norfolk, Va., boat builder; of obstructing the search for the Lindbergh baby; at Flemington, N. J. Defendant Curtis repudiated his original confession that he had hoaxed Col. Lindbergh and the police by leading a long, fruitless search off the New Jersey coast for a Gloucester fisherman on which he said the baby was held. The prosecution was able to convince the jury that Curtis, therefore, must be shielding the actual kidnappers. Maximum penalty: three years in prison, $1,000 fine or both. The defendant appealed...
Handback, ruined, is philosophical until he can collect legal proof against Miltiades. Then he starts trouble, mostly for himself. In his frantic search of Miltiades' house for the money, Ponny, whose pulling & groaning at last mean more than obesity, is frightened into a miscarriage and death. Handback finds himself glad to accept Miltiades' trifling settlement...
...mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least 300 people knew he would attend her performance. A search began for Gangsters Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, onetime "Lindbergh emissaries." Gangster Spitale broke a golf appointment, was nowhere to be found...
...runs away. Balkis learns a thing or two from Solomon, more elsewhere. Zud takes up with a rural god who, besides his other attributes, owns 500 sheep and a cottage in the hills. In the end Balkis goes home, the continuance of her dynasty assured. Solomon resumes his search for something new under the sun among his regular wives...