Word: waley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Stille Cummings is still in Washington, practicing law privately. Harvey Bailey, "Machine Gun" Kelly, Harmon Waley and numerous other bottomnotchers are still in Alcatraz, where he put them. "Scarface Al" Capone, whose transfer from Atlanta Mr. Cummings personally supervised from a top floor of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel in 1934, got transferred out last winter, crazed as much by paresis as by confinement. Of Frank Murphy's view of Alcatraz, Homer Cummings did not think much. Said he: "Those babies wouldn't stay in a prison farm very long...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison paunchy Convict Al Capone called lean Convict Harmon Waley, kidnapper of little George Weyerhaeuser, a "baby-snatcher." Offended, Convict Waley hit the first U. S. Public Enemy No. 1 on the jaw, knocked him down...
Sentenced. Harmon M. Waley, 24, kidnapper of George Weyerhaeuser (TIME, June 17): to 45 years in prison; after pleading guilty at Tacoma, Wash...
...cashier's cage her $5 bill was quickly checked with the ransom list. The detective made his arrest. Other officers were waiting at the woman's home when her husband appeared a few hours later, with two ransom bills in his pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part in the kidnapping. Suspended sentences or paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted that they were...
...University of California at Los Angeles, 2. Crewman Samuel Drury, Harvard University, 3. Shotputter J. M. Baillieu, Magdalen College (England), 4. Tackle Fil Sanford, University of Richmond, 5. Shotputter Jack Torrance, Louisiana State University, 6. Gymnast Rehor, University of Illinois, 7. Pugilist Paul Hartnek, Creighton University, 8. Highjumper A. Waley, Eton College (England), 9. Speedster Ivan Fuqua, Indiana University, 10. Halfback Harry Patch, Villanova College, and 11. Ballcarrier...