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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1939
Page
25
A sweeping recap recalls dramatic lives and deaths from the past era. Names like Jack de Ruyter, Helen Hulick, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Edna Dunham Plant surface amid scandals, lawsuits, and high society misadventures. The piece links fate across generations, noting executions, divorces, and curious judicial reversals.
The debate over Napolean's final words rages as scholars argue whether the dying man spoke of his mother or expressed a fearless military stance. The fragmentary manuscript from Napoleon's will and the era's biographers fuel theories, with some insisting the last words were “a ma mere.”
Frederick Barnes, a trolley office worker, returns home to a quiet family scene. His wife Alice Barnes, described as a plain, devout mother, steals into the night and, over weeks, amasses jewelry and pearls from a front door window. A morbid state of mind and insomnia are cited as motives. She admits seven housebreakings at Liverpool Quarter Sessions and receives a six month sentence. The husband, stunned, recalls her past illness and operation, while children grapple with their mother’s arrest. The case prompts police vigilance and public calls for help from Scotland Yard.
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