Show A TRAIL OF BLOOD BLOOD I Last week in a courtroom at Clayton Mo 10 Angelo heard beard a Jury fury pronounce hIm gUIlty in connectIon wIth the kIdnap kIdnap- mg ing of Dr Issac D Kelley a prominent St LOUIS specialist m in 1931 and recommended a sentence of 20 years m in the penitentiary ThIS was the fIrst legal convIctIon m in the case but a long traIl of blood has marked the efforts ts to bl bring mg the perpetrators of the crime to JustIce No less than SIX sit persons are dead as a sequel to tot t the he ClIme Three gangsters implIcated the were wele kIlled by polIce a negro charged rth complicity turned states state's eVIdence and was slam slain by machine gun bullets fu fired ed from om ambush a woman not connected wIth the crIme was shot during a raid laId to obtain eVIdence and an assIstant for the prosecution commItted suicide The success WhICh officers of the law have met lately m in run run- lunning running ning down kIdnapers IS most encouraging and should tend to re- re I duce reduce uce If not eliminate thIs partIcular speCIes of criminality Their Theu efforts m in thIS dIrectIon should be pressed relentlessly untIl gangsters are ale convinced of of the fact that does not pay It must be fine to be rIch up to the beginning of the investigation Among actor folk marriage IS merely an intermission be- be tween between love affaIrs Two Brooklyn men traded WIves and now each thInks the theether ether ther IS a swindler never agree about a criminals criminal's mental condItIon un- un less unless they are paId by the same sIde That old bIblIcal rule works both ways Sometimes the sins sms of f the chIldren are vIsIted upon the fathers When asked to sacrifice something for the poor chIldren lIttle Willie TIllIe generously agreed to do wIthout soap London Opinion 1 reports epOl ts an EnglIshman who is so sh strong ong he can open the window of a railroad coach Correct thIS sentence He was a shIftless loafer before mar mar- but IS now an industrious and thrifty husband PolItIcal fable Once upon a tIme a Congressman voted against l a pork pOlk barrel proJect whIch would benefIt hIS district Then there was the stenographer who telephoned the boss she Couldn't work that day because her lips were chapped r i iA rA A Texas Te newspaper columnist has hac quit because he has 1 run un out of f ideas He should land a swell Job fob comedians wrIting gags for far radIO com com- |