Bank robbery rapid capture in Otisville years ago
El mer E. Spencer a 53 year old unemployed farm hand robbed the Otisville Michigan bank. Restricted by a car speed of 15 miles an hour he was captured within three hours and now serves a 30 to 40 year term in Jackson prison. Spencer, former first sergeant of the first machine gun company in the U S army in 1906, told the posse I have been under fire in Cuba China and the Philippines but this is the first time I ever ran.
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Elmer E. Spencer
Otisville
Mich
Jackson
Spencer
U. S. Army
Cuba
China
Philippines
Capone linked to torch murder probe as Heitler identity sought
Chicago investigator Pat Roche vows to jail Al Capone’s interests for the torch murder of Heitler. Officials seek to identify a charred Barrington body as Heitler and press on with conditional surrender talks. Minnie Kennedy, gravely ill, laments her daughter’s absence amid Angelus Temple scenes. In Kansas City, ice man Jess Wingo hopes for a hot summer as he faces a growing family with triplets joining four children.
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al Capone
Mike de Pike
Heitler
Chicago
Pat Roche
Capone
Roche
Barrington
Ill
Minnie “Ma” Kennedy
Aimee Semple McPherson
Evangelist
Angelus Temple
Los Angeles
Jess Wingo
Kansas City
Arctic explorer to attempt Boston London flight with Rocheville
Commander Donald B. MacMillan plans a summer flight from Boston to London and back to search for traces of 1927 Paris to New York flyers Capt. Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli. He aims to show transatlantic travel viability via Greenland Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Charles F. Rocheville as his pilot.
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Donald B. MacMillan
Charles Nungesser
Francois Coli
Paris
New York
Boston
London
United States
Greenland
Iceland
Fe Islands
Charles F. Rocheville
Los Angeles
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Nev
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Anti-Saloon League
E. E. Roberts
SaBee
Bepalene
Bia Pearson
Philad
Cne
Quaker C
Virginia Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britain
Dawes
King George
Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
Aimee
Jane Filstrup
Michigan
James Cannon
Gerald P. Nye
Ada L. Burroughs
Alexis Mdivani
Louise
Aftor van Ene
Europe
Mdivani
Mae Murray
Polo Negri
Washington
Charles M. Lockwood
Minnesota
Last Man Club
Patrick J. Hurley
White House
Hoover
Baltimore
R. L. Fredericks
P. J. O’donnell
Parker McRae
Marion McRae
Allan S. Lund
J. E. Hoover
C. A. Tolson
Jack Farrington
Elizabeth Westwood
Max
New Kiwanis
Max Schmeling
Ing
Bill Stribling
Cleveland
Temple of Music
Conneaut Lake
Nevada
Diana Partridge Reill
Mildred Huxtable
East St. Louis
William Reardon
Sterling Huxtable
Belleville, Il
M. Kennedy
Reato William C. Harris
Kiwanis International
Miami
Fla
Cornell University
Drouth
Frederic H. Girnau
Clara Bow
Tral Africa
Dro Rethur Torrance
Univers
Southern California
Buta
Belgian Congo
V. J. Torrance
Atlamatic Ocean
Captain Dollar
Robert Dollar
San Rafaal Cal
Scott
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