Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union City, N. J., on the chance that he might be a counterfeiter, U. S. Secret Service agents raided the apartment of a man whom they had observed buying engraving chemicals in Manhattan. They found a complete counterfeiting plant, discovered their captive was William Watts, 42, long sought by the Treasury as No. 1 U. S. counterfeiter. A one-time druggist who began by engraving labels for bootleg liquor, Watts turned out banknotes so perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note...
Since the grand jury hearings were secret, little was revealed as to the quality of evidence to be offered when the accused are brought to trial this autumn. One Bert Hollinger of Le Mars, ex-bootlegger and smalltime "fixer" now serving five years for extortion, testified that in 1933 he paid cash in return for the bootlegging and slot-machine privileges in Plymouth and Woodbury Counties to Attorney General O'Connor. "O'Connor said it was very strange that I would insist on wanting to make the first payment to him direct, and I told him that I didn...
...raids on the exposed royal palace, plump Empress Menen, her 14-year-old daughter Princess Tsahai and Prince Makonnen, 11, climbed into a special train and disappeared in the direction of French Somaliland. All that could be learned in Addis Ababa was that they were bound for a secret hideaway near the Danakil Desert...
...more than half a century in the theatre, was noted chiefly for his Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace and Hedda Hopper. Asked the secret of his longevity, he once explained: "I never smoked and never drank until...
...Line Steamboat Co., a blue-eyed, outdoor youth, courted her although he was engaged to another girl. Mabel accepted his courtship with greater interest after her father forbade her to see Karl again. By a queer sort of trick. Karl married her. They lived happily, keeping the marriage a secret until Mabel became pregnant. Then a second, public ceremony was arranged. Soon after his son was born Karl was accidentally killed while hunting, Mabel's father died and she started for Paris to forget...