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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1921
Page
4
A rum runner from Stamford, Conn., allegedly evades officers in a sensational dash to Springfield Mass, then attempts to hang himself in county jail. He reportedly disposed of $3,000 in cash in a prior will, with investigators learning details today.
A report notes an inmate named Creek, now under strict watch, serving a two and a half year reformatory sentence after an attempted escape through underground channels. The article mentions an individual named Haseen Less in relation to the incident.
John Tame of Waterbury, an escapee from the New Haven jail in May 1979, was returned today by a federal agent from Oklahoma where he was captured. Romanausk was serving one year for whiskey related interstate transport crimes.
Harrison Ark February Henry Starr famed Oklahoma bandit was fatally wounded during an attempted robbery of the Peoples Bank of Harrison. A bank employee armed with a hidden rifle fired, wounding Starr. two accomplices escaped into nearby woods while pursued by a posse of over 100. Starr later admitted his identity at the county jail but gave no details about his partners.
Boston February 18 The United States circuit court of appeals vacated the jury verdict in the federal district court awarding the Cape Cod Canal Company 1601901 for the canal purchase. The case was remanded for new proceedings with evidence by Brigadier General Clarence Edwards and Rear Admiral Francis T Fowles deemed incompetent regarding the canal as a defense asset and traffic earnings estimates.
Greenwich Feb. 18 Jury member Gilbert L. Ritch a Cos Cob real estate broker has sat on the federal court jury at New Haven since October. He and 11 other jurors petition Senator Brandegee to raise juror pay and reimburse their service for this term. Ritch now earns 8 dollars a day and carfare weekly, with daily expenses listed. Brandegee, on the judiciary committee, says he will consider the request.
In Sandwich Massachusetts on February 18 coast guards at the Sandwich station acted as firemen to save the Museoucheong crew. Captain Chris Sullivan and his men boarded the burning barge in the Cape Cod canal, woke the crew, and fought the flames in the forecastle while three tugs sprayed water. The vessel, owned by the Atlantic Coast Transportation Company of New York, was believed doomed.
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