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...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...
Harvard 1928 Andover Saltonstall l.e. r. e. Burns Simonds l.t. r.t. Foster Gregg l.g. r.g. Healey Bell c. c. Dorman Morris r.g. l.g. Sprigg Pratt r.t. l.t. Kingston Murchie r.e. l.e. Darby Crawford or Kelley q.b. q.b. Billhardt Chauncey l.h.b. r.h.b. Sandberg Gallway r.h.b. l.h.b. Frigard Linscott f.b. f.b. Ward...
Order of the day now pending: "Resolved, that members of secret societies should not be allowed to act as jurors, or serve as witnesses in courts of law." Offered by Mr. Sprigg, of Illinois...
...special meeting of the Assembly was held on Monday, 22d inst., for the purpose of appointing a committee to prepare resolutions of respect for the life of Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States. Gentlemen appointed on the committee were: Messrs. Sprigg, of Illinois; Deming and Ross, of New York; Krank, of California; Alspaugh, of Ohio...