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MCGRATH, ALASKA. DEC. 7. 1921
$350,000 Mail Theft
Plot Related in. Court
Chicago.—Efforts of the defense to
shake the testimony of the Govern
ment’s star witnesses in the trial of
“Big Tim” Murphy and several others
in connection with the $350,000 Dear
born station mail robbery here last
April^failed here Thursday. Repeated
questioning failed to alter their stories
or their identification of Murphv. Vin
cenv.o Cossmrno, Edward Geirum and
Paul Volanti as the men who planned
and executed the robbery.
Ralph Te&er, former mail clerk, of
iodlauapolis.-who confessed he was to
have received $100,000 from Murphy
for pointing out the truck containing
She registered mail pouches, and who
is loue of the Government’s principal
witnesses, told of conferences which he
claimed were held in Muonhy’s office,
headquarters of the street-sweepers’
union:
George W. Hecker, also under' in
dictment, said he went. to Murphy’s
hou'se for breakfast the morning fol
lowing the robbery to get his split.
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Murphv, he saidr greeted him with
“What do you think of mv men now?
Eight or nine more jobs like this and
we’ll have the Govornment inspectors
walking around in circuits.” Murphy
did not have the money at that time.
Hecker testified, but said it was “plant
ed on the south side, under some to
mato cans.”
P. O. Chauffeur Aids Plot.
* New York, Nov. 3.—Postal authori
ties investigating the mail truck hold
up of October 24, in which armed men
escaped with securities and money es
timated at $2,000,009, Thursday dis
closed a similar robbery had been
planned two months ago. The robbery
never materialized. Officials said a
mail truck chauffeur had supplied ten
confederates with data on- truck sched
ules and instructions for recognizing
pouches containing valuable registered
mail.
New Rival for U. S.
Steel Is Merger Hint
Philadelphia.—Consolidation of six
of the leading independent steel com
panies, which it is expected will be
come effective with the opening of the
new year, is indicated by daily-maneu
vering in Philadelphia, New York,
Buffalo, Youngstownand Chicago.
In these cities are located the main
plums of the leading companies which
which are expected to enter the mer
ger.
The companies that are to be linked
in the plans now under way are: The
Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company of
Philadelphia, the Republic Iron &
Steel Company, the Youngstown Sheet
&-Tube Company, and the Brier Hill
Steel Company of Youngstown, tne
Lackawanna Steel Company of Buffalo,
and the Inland Steel Company of Chi
cago'.
The outstanding capital stock of
these companies in 1920 was approgi
mately $200,009,000, and in that year
they did a gross business of nearly
$500,000,000. The gross business done
by the United States Steel Corporation
in 1920 was $1,755,477,025, and by tha
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, $274.
431,238.
The contemplated merger would give
the new company a rank second oniy to
that of the United States Steel Coj
poration.
Wreck of Once Happy Home
Is Laid to Prohibition Law
Pittsburg.—Here is a.mwife who
blames her marital troubles on the
Volstead Act:
Mrs. Rose Smith testified in the di
vorce proceedings she brought agaiBSt;
her husband, Emeriek Smiths a tailor
of Sewickely. that be drank before pro
hibition like a gentleman should, but
like something else after prohibition
became effective. They had always
got along well together, but- after pro
hibition was supposed to have become
effective there was no living with him,
she said.
The wife is recommended a decree of
divorce in the minister’s report.
A Duel of 78 Rounds.
' Rome.—Count Pietro Rosconi and
Lieutenant Altobelli, both of this city,
recently engaged in a duel that is be
lieved to have set the record for small
gun practice/
They faced each other-on the field of
honor and-began hostilities, which con
tinued until they had exchanged 78
rounds, neither one having suffered
serious damage At last their seconds
and the surgeons in attendance inter
fered asp stopped- the fusillade'.
The two mem before retiring, de
clared themselves reconciled^ .
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