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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
7
George Dally is shown praying in San Francisco after being charged with the murder of Morris Corn Propst in a long running family feud. The case involves Policeman Walter Q. Salisbury who was wounded in the shooting.
The wife of Frederick Wingersky, Boston attorney and VP at M Kesson Robbins, told New York investigators of a rumored 50 million gun running plot allegedly aided by BP Donald Coster. He claimed 2,000,000 rifles would pass via an English oil firm. Mayor Norville W. Brickey of Festus, Missouri, faced embezzlement charges for $12,000 from the Festus district treasury after surrendering in St. Louis on a false entries case for $85,690 at Citizens Bank. Brickey had earlier been president of the bank.
In Fairfield Connecticut Mrs George Dietrich cries as Edens proclaims after 17 years of marriage he did not know her husband was actually George Mussex brother of the late Donald Coster head of McKesson Robbins. George faced a charge connected to a nationalities affair.
A fragmented, disjointed read lists people and hints at plans and theater, referencing Fania Anthony Doyle and a December jolt. It hints at a river anecdote and a quiz about a man who deciaw Indies hate the ssine fellow who draws gasoline station plans, all in a garbled November to December timeframe.
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