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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Stevens, 70, one of the acquitted defendants in the unsolved, tabloid-trumped-up Hall-Mills murder case (1926); of heart disease; in Lavalette, N. J. Two co-defendants survive him : his sister Frances Stevens Hall, widow of the murdered minister, and his lethargic brother Willie, who made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Chapter 3: At the Border. Next day a big limousine drew up near a little inn on the German-Dutch border at Venloo. At the wheel was a certain Dutchman named J. Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

As the car pulled to a stop, a German in civilian clothes stepped out of the cafe and made a mysterious signal. At once a gang of civilians rushed across the border from Germany, firing wild shots (one of which killed Mynheer Klop). The civilians bundled their captives into another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Chapter 6: Sabotage. In Berlin Captain Stevens got busy making confessions. He admitted 15 cases of sabotage on German, Italian, Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Otto Heydrick announced that he had incontrovertible proof that Secret Agents Stevens and Best had been two cogs in the infernal plot-how, perhaps coming in a later volume.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Himmler's Thriller | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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