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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1939
Page
4
In Poisonings Held for questioning the widow Anne Sullivan of Milwaukee is investigated over the fatal poisoning of her husband Fred Ricklefs, 34, and his son Sullivan, 15. Police say Mrs. Sullivan’s present husband is Al from poison.
Father H Gaboury led a special mass outside the parliament building for Quebec provincial police assigned to guard the British king and queen during their stay in Quebec. The royal couple planned to visit the United States afterward.
A Phoenix jury finds Gustav Blair a 69 year old carpenter who claims to be Charles Ross the kidnapper at Germantown Pennsylvania in July 1874. Blair sought civil recognition as the central figure in one of the nations famed criminal mysteries.
Captain Arthur E. LaPorte leads a 13 crew plus two observers on the Yankee Clipper from Port Washington New York to Marseilles France marking the first regular transatlantic airline flight test. The mission aims to establish a routine service.
Southeast Missouri’s Panhandle, a narrow strip between the Mississippi and St Francis rivers, is said to owe its existence to a prominent landowner south of the 36 30 line who sought to include his plantation in the new state.
A lease in Hampshire England requires each occupant of Eastwich Farm to keep a gallows on the land in repair. The gallows have never been used since the original execution over 250 years ago and must be rebuilt when needed. The current gallows is the third on the site.
Tom Pendergast aged 66 pleads guilty to evading income taxes on 445 500 dollars and receives a 15 month federal prison term. He is pictured with his son Tom Jr and nephew Jim Pendergast.
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