Putnam Answers Gill Claim of Graft Fighting Duty Amid Scandal
Sergt Victor Putnam former head of the city police squad filed his answer to Mayor Gill's dismissal letter. He says he used private detectives to obtain evidence and acted with the prosecuting attorney's knowledge and sanction. He asserts his actions were duty driven not personal. He questions Gill's explanations and defends police methods.
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Letters to Carry News From Sammmies Paris
Paris June 17 By Mail information relative to individual members of the American expedition army in France will not be permitted in news cables. The general staff announced such news must be transmitted by officers and men themselves. The mail will pass through military censorship and may be given to newspapers by relatives after arrival in America. An exception may be made for exceptional bravery or devotion to duty but only after troops are actually under fire.
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Murder Father Leaves Two Boys in Shocked Town
In St Louis on July 6 United Press reports Theodore 13 and Herman 23 beat their father William Dannecker to death with a baseball bat after accusing him of cruelty to their stepmother. Henry L McGillis, longtime city park department engineer, was named a captain in the U S Army Engineers Reserve.
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German Gunner Targeted Mother in Blackmail Case
The Munich Post reports a blackmail plot by Gunner Johann Czak who posed as acting for a front line comrade and demanded 160 dollars from the dead son’s mother. The case, heard by Dr. Spitzer, questioned whether blackmail of a deceased person qualifies as a crime. Hamburg discusses postwar industrial plans with Harbure urging expansion along the Elbe and Berlin-backed German recovery.
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Johann Czak
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Convicted Man Sentenced for Threats and Fraud Claims
A court sentenced Czak to 18 months hard labor for threatening to murder a deceased person and an additional 12 months for making false statements about a comrade to aid an attempted fraud.
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