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Britain's "wanted men" have a knack for avoiding police. James White, a member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang, posed as a fisherman in Kent for 21-years before he was caught. Baby Strangler John Edward Allen lived for two years within 200 yards of a police station, was spotted only when his curiosity led him to the station bulletin board to look for his own wanted notice. Harry Roberts may not be so lucky. "Even if Roberts remained free for two years," noted the Observer, "every policeman in Britain would still go to sleep remembering...
Died. Robert H. Friedrich, 76, professional wrestler, known as "Strangler Lewis," a Wisconsin farm boy who started throwing his beef around the ring at the age of 14 when he weighed 200 lbs., grew into a 270-lb. behemoth and, with fearsome mien and paralyzing headlock, crunched foe after foe in the days before the "sport" abandoned all pretense of honesty, losing but 33 of his 6,200 matches in a 44-year career-which made him one of the highest paid athletes, with earnings of more than $4,000,000; of complications following a stroke; in Muskogee, Okla...
Unlike the pianists who open doors with their elbows, Michelangeli is not one to pamper his "strangler's hands." He is an avid skier, mountain climber and high-speed sports-car enthusiast (as a prewar professional driver, he once won the Mille Miglia). As a result he cannot find an insurance company that will insure his hands. Or his future. Even his manager, marveling at Michelangeli's "sudden return to the world," openly wonders: "How long will it continue?" Hopefully until next January, when the reluctant master is scheduled to perform in the U.S. for the first time...
...full of zeal, immediately made a bad mistake by trying, and failing, to purge powerful House Speaker John ("Iron Duke") Thompson. He also lost political points by urging that Massachusetts should abolish the death penalty-at a time when several policemen had been shot to death and the Boston strangler continued his murder spree...
...letters to the police and press, Le´ger sat chatting with detectives at police headquarters as a squad from the Suûr-eteÚ's First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little boy, he explained, because "he seemed as unhappy as I was when...