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As printed: CITIZENS WARNED TO STAY INDOORS DURING MAN HUNT
ContextElizabeth is a city in northern New Jersey, a few miles from the wooded Watchung ridge that runs west and north of it; the state police force, in which Major Mark O. Kimberling is a senior officer, was created five years earlier and worked with county sheriffs. United States mail trucks carried registered mail and currency between post offices and railroad stations.
As printed: CHIEF COLLINS STARTS DRIVE ON GANGSTERS
ContextUnder national prohibition, in force since 1920, making and selling liquor is illegal and the trade has largely fallen to criminal gangs. Earl "Hymie" Weiss led the North Side gang after Dean O'Banion was shot dead in his flower shop in 1924; Morgan A. Collins is Chicago's chief of police.
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the pastor of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a Southern California beach in May and reappeared in June at Douglas, Arizona, saying she had been kidnapped; Kenneth G. Ormiston was the radio operator at her temple. A preliminary hearing in Municipal Court decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial, and Carmel-by-the-Sea is a small coastal town south of San Francisco.
ContextD. C. Stephenson was the Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader convicted in 1925 of the murder of Madge Oberholtzer and is serving a life sentence at the state prison at Michigan City. A grand jury hears evidence in secret and decides whether charges shall be brought; William H. Remy is the prosecutor of Marion County, which contains Indianapolis.
As printed: QUEEN MARIE WINS PASSENGERS' PRAISE ABOARD · LEVIATHAN
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; she is crossing with two of her children, Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana. The Leviathan is the largest liner under the American flag, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is the widow of the former President.
The Watchung cordon tightens with no time set for the hunt's completion, while in Los Angeles the defense keeps the State's witness on the stand and more witnesses go before the Marion County grand jury.
