The Student Fraternity Murder Chapter Climax
Detective Rankin pieces together Laura Dumont and Myra Prentiss as suspects in the murder of Stuart Jordan. The trail leads through staged alibis, forged letters, and a hidden romance, with Myra Prentiss traced to St Louis Equity records and a Philadelphia-involved plot. Rankin speeds to confront the suspects and secure Myra’s return to face questioning.
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Stuart
St. Louis
Forrest Theater
Aberdeen
Laura Dumont
Stuart Jordan
Laura
East St. Louis
Mississippi River
Jordan
Rankin
Dvorce
Ceus
Mr. Rankin
Mr. Fletcher
Byven
Mia
Merrick
Eastern
Mr. Merrick
Actors’ Organization
Actor's Equity Association
Chorus Equity Association
Winters
Hammond
Myra Prentiss
Equity
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Holcomb Apartments
Clarges Street
Thomas Rankin
Homicide Bureau
New York City
N. Y
GIR
Philip Chambers
ST Louis
Chambers
New York
Justin
Syrian slave M tanos freed after 17 years in Arabia
Brooklyn story of Adbo Hiwany and his son M tanos who was captured as a child and sold into slavery in the Arabian desert. After years of separation, the French Foreign Legion freed the slaves and M tanos is returning home to Syria and likely reuniting with his father.
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Brooklyn
Adbo Hiwany
M’tanos
Adbo
N. Y
Anna
Syria
America
French Foreign Legion
Homs
Trail of an Alibi Deepens on Laura Du Monte Voyage
A detective questions ship staff on the Florida to verify Laura Du Monte’s voyage entry in cabin 28. Nurse Miss Sumner confirms the actress stayed in her cabin and did not reserve deck space, suggesting possible use of a false registration.
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Mertick
Vandalia
Rankin
University Hospital
Ben Crawford
Florence Dalton
Gilmore
Crawford
Stuart Jordan
Cabin
Laura Dumont
Mrs. Winters
Laura du Monte
Myra Prentiss
Laura Jordan
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Miss Prentiss
Jordan
Florida
Miss Sumner
Polish runner to face jail after duel over love rival
Warsaw a ten thousand meter world record holder Janus Kusocinsky dueled a rival over Wadja Warkiwska, the Warsaw stage beauty. Both were wounded and the distance runner faces imprisonment since duelling is illegal in Poland.
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Warsaw
Poland
Janus Kusocinsky
Janus
Wadja Warkiwska
Couple Die Freeing Dog On Lake Wawasee Golf Course
Christian Payne and his wife Elizabeth, both residents of Terre Haute, were electrocuted on a Lake Wawasee golf course while attempting to rescue their German police dog. A caddy found the bodies about thirty minutes later near the struck wire with the dog and a scared opossum nearby. Coroner Paul Landis attributed the deaths to accidental electrocution during the rescue attempt.
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Lake Wawasee
Ind
Christian Payne
Elizabeth
Payne
Terre Haute
Paul Landis
Tarzan‑like convict found living in Bulgarian woods
An escaped prisoner living in isolation since 1900 was discovered in a large oak tree nest near Grayboyo Bulgaria. Hunters captured the shaggy man in skins and turned him over to authorities revealing a 24 year escape. He spoke with difficulty after decades in the woods.
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Grayboyo
Bulgaria
Convicts Learn to Fly but Not Over the Walls
An aviation course for federal prisoners at McNeil Island penitentiary uses a plane with clipped wings. Officials removed the wings at the fuselage to prevent pupils from leaving the course quickly.
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San Francisco
McNeil Island Penitentiary
Last Shovelful Yields Big Nugget in Gold Run Find
J. W. Davis, a prospector on Gold Run Creek near Mancos Colorado, struck a final shovel full that produced an ounce and a quarter nugget before quitting the dig.
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Mancos
Colo
J. W. Davis
Gold Run Creek
Denver Boy Undergoes Treatment To Halt Growth
Willard Akin a fourteen year old Denver junior high student reaches six feet two inches and undergoes treatment to curb his growth as doctors seek to prevent further height increase in a local medical effort.
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Denver
Willard Akin
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Milton Propper
WNU Service
Mrs. Jordan
Foreign Legion
Holcomb
Dobson
Tarzan
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