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Annette Erin O'Brien-Moore was born in Los Angeles in 1906, studied at St. Joseph's Convent in Tucson, planned to be a sculptor. At 15, she made her first appearance on the Manhattan stage. That she has not appeared in cinema before is partly due to the fact that in 1929 she was selected to play the young daughter in Street Scene. After 800 performances in Manhattan and London, she met Sam Goldwyn to discuss playing in the cinema version. They became so interested in how the picture should be made that they forgot to sign...
With the Gettle story breaking in Los Angeles exactly 43 min. after six-year-old June Robles was found in the desert out-side Tucson, Ariz., the Press was in a frenzy. So warm was the Gettle story in Los Angeles that old Arthur Brisbane, visiting there, stepped back into his favorite role of reporter for the day. He went to the Hall of Justice, spent four and a half hours with the prisoners in the case, wrote live columns instead of one for his syndicate next day. After interviewing Kidnappers Kirk, Kerrigan & Williams (see p. 16), Reporter Brisbane...
Within a few hours of each other, one evening early this week, two western kidnapping cases came to happy endings. Found in the desert near Tucson, Ariz, three weeks after she had been snatched was June Robles, 6, granddaughter of a Tucson cattleman. No ransom was paid, no snatcher caught. From Chicago officials had received a special delivery airmail letter directing them to a spot g-2 mi. from Tucson. They found June Robles lying in a shallow hole, chained by her ankles, covered with tin, burlap and cactus. Beside her lay a jug of water, a loaf of fairly...
...through a hail of bullets. He began raiding small-town police stations in Indiana for arms and bullet-proof vests while his bank robberies multiplied. Then with his plunder he dropped out of sight until last January when officers arrested him and three of his gang, quietly vacationing in Tucson, Ariz. (TIME, Feb. 5). Chapter No. 2 ended with his return by air to Crown Point, Ind. to face a murder charge for a policeman killed in an East Chicago (Ind.) bank robbery...
...Tucson, Ariz...