Word: widmer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest: Robert Chambers of New York University; Irving Widmer Bailey of Harvard; Herbert Spencer Jennings of Johns Hopkins; Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt and Charles Atwood Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
...Sheriff Martin O'Donnell's office received a scrawled anonymous letter: "This is just to warn you that the 2 Bird bros. you have in for bank robbery have it all set to break out at 3 o'clock this afternoon with their pal Widmer. . . ." A special guard was placed around the cells of Frank and Charles Bird, young Missouri desperadoes awaiting trial for bank robbery, and their friend James Widmer who last year escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. Nothing happened...
Last week, shortly after his wife, Barbara Bird, had paid a call on him in jail, Charles Bird cornered two deputies with two guns, put them in a cell while he released his brother, Widmer and a 19-year-old youth named Theodore Slapik, awaiting trial for murder. The four descended from the fourth floor to the basement in an elevator, dashed out the front door. A few moments later they pulled Municipal Judge Louis Petrash out of the driver's seat of his car and roared off toward Cleveland's Public Square...
...time police found the third car abandoned by the desperadoes, Widmer and both Birds had disappeared, but in a nearby yard two small girls were screaming and pointing at a child-size pup tent in which they had been playing. Police surrounded the yard, converged on the tent. From it sheepishly emerged Theodore Slapik, his right thumb crudely bandaged where it had been hit by a detective's bullet...