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Clark Wilby
In 1942, West Point's present Superintendent, Major General Francis H. Wilby, invited criticism of the shortened curriculum from a board of consultants including Presidents Ernest M. Hopkins of Dart mouth and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T.
One bright morning last week two pick & shovel laborers turned up at the house of Ralph M. Wilby in Burnaby, B.C. While a Canadian Mountie stood guard, they dug up the whole backyard, then the sides, then the front yard. Then they started digging up the neighbors' yard.
Ralph Wilby (alias Alexander Douglas Hume) directed the exhumation-from New York City's Tombs Prison. He had purloined $386,920 from the New York realty management firm for which he worked, then absconded. He was captured last spring at Victoria, extradited, convicted. At first he would not tell...
His hope: clemency. His chances: not as bright as the Vancouver Daily Province predicted when it claimed that in return for tattling on himself, Wilby would get a mere two-year sentence, two free tickets to Africa for his wife and himself, $10,500 cash for rehabilitation purposes.