Today -100: April 27, 1922: By the throat

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, who began the Nick Carter, Detective stories in 1890 and wrote, according to MacLean’s, 40 million words in over 1,000 Nick Carter stories, now penniless, shoots himself in the Hotel Broztell. “Things have gone to smash with me, and I’m just tired out, and want to try the long sleep,” he says in a letter. He was 61.

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Lenin has a second operation to remove a remaining bullet fragment.

King Gustav of Sweden is injured when his automobile is hit by the car of a Geneva banker, which is probably a metaphor of some kind.

Speaking of metaphors, NYC District Attorney Joab Banton says “We’ve got the crime wave by the throat.”

Fritz Lang’s film Dr Mabuse the Gambler part 1 premieres in Germany.

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