Word: wrentham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old carpenter appeared at a Massachusetts hospital, complaining of inability to eat. On Feb. 21, 1934 another 70-year-old carpenter showed up at the hospital, also complaining of inability to eat. The ailing carpenters were identical twin brothers. Transferred to Wrentham's (Mass) Pondville Hospital, they displayed the same distressing symptoms, died respectively on June 17 and April 29. Autopsies revealed stomach tumors almost identical in character and location...
...postal inspectors on the trail of Carl Rettich and his suave, handsome henchman, Andino Merola. One day last fortnight they followed the pair from Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham, Mass. Next day postal inspectors and Providence police descended on Carl Rettich's big house on Warwick Neck, arrested his father, his sister & brother-in-law. Then they proceeded to make some discoveries which left Senator Gerry and Warwick Country Clubbers gaping...
Prizefighter Ernie Schaaf who died after his ring hammering from monstrous Primo Camera (TIME, Feb. 20) was buried at Wrentham, Mass, last week without his brain. His brain remained in Manhattan, scene of the fight, for medical legalists to determine just what caused the death. Primo Camera might have committed murder. Or Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf...