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...Russians offered the G.I.s 7,000 schillings ($269) to kidnap Eder, who was a night watchman in a Vienna radio-manufacturing plant and, in spy parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but the Reds discovered that he took pay from both sides. They decided that he had better be put out of the way. Frankey and Abel accepted the commission. They lured Eder into a borrowed jeep by telling him that he was wanted by U.S. authorities. After Eder had been delivered...
...minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...
Three Bundles. For almost an hour Pickering and Detroit police searched the three-story building, found nothing suspicious. But at 11:30 that night, a night watchman spotted a rain-soaked cardboard carton outside an unused basement entrance. It was wrapped in red and green Christmas paper and tied with a piece of cheap blue ribbon. Inside were 39 sticks of dynamite, carefully packed and taped into three bundles. One of the two fuses had burned out within an inch of the detonator, apparently snuffed out by the black friction tape which bound it too tightly; the other had fizzled...
...Strand that first published Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...
...storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only by an aged watchman...