The Hour of the Cat
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John Mayhew Taylor, Acclaimed Reporter, Killed in Plane
Crash While Covering Progress of Allied Invasion
(N.Y. World-Telegram, June 12, 1944)
John Lockwood, 83, Dean of City’s Crime Reporters,
Dies/’End of an Era,’ His Colleagues Say
(Knickerbocker News, August 26, 1951)
Wilfredo Grillo, patriota, exiliado e incansable luchador por
una Cuba democrática, falleció repentinamente en su casa
ayer por la manana de un paro cardiaco.
(Tampa, El Libertador, 21 de septiembre de 1958.)
Residente de los Estados Unidos durante casi todos los ultimos 20 anos, a Grillo lo involucraron en una etapa de su vida en un homicidio, crimen por el cual fue injustamente convicto y luego absuelto. Despues de una breve estancia en Cuba, se radicó en Tampa pero viajó extensamente apoyando la opocisión en contra del regimen de Batista en su patria natal. El obituario completo aparece en la página 8 de este periódico.
[translation by Mia Carbonell: WILFREDO GRILLO, PATRIOT, EXILE AND TIRELESS ADVOCATE OF A DEMOCRATIC CUBA, died suddenly at home yesterday morning from a heart attack. A resident of the U.S. for most of the past 20 years, Grillo was at one time the center of a notorious murder case in New York, a crime for which he was unjustly convicted and subsequently exonerated. After a brief return to Cuba, he settled in Tampa yet traveled widely in support of the opposition to the Batista regime in his native land. A full obituary appears on p.8 of this newspaper. (Tampa, The Liberator, September 21, 1958)]
Fintan Dunne, Former Detective and O.S.S. Agent,
Succumbs to Cancer at Age 63
(N.Y. Standard, April 16, 1961)
Fintan Dunne, a former city police detective who was recruited by General William J. Donovan as an early member of the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), died of lung cancer on March 31, at his winter residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
Mr. Dunne, who served under General Donovan in France during WWI, was recruited into the O.S.S. in its formative days. He was sent into the field on a variety of clandestine intelligence missions, which took him behind enemy lines in Italy and occupied France.
At war’s end, Mr. Dunne, who held the rank of captain, joined the Allied Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes. He resigned in September 1946 after publicly alleging that the criminal complicity of German physicians in the infamous sterilization and euthanasia programs was not being adequately prosecuted.
He subsequently founded the All-American Detective Agency, a successful pioneer in providing security services to private business. He sold the agency to Intercontinental Service Industries in 1958. For the past several years, he spent his winters in Florida. As well as his wife, Roberta, Mr. Dunne is survived by a niece, Mrs. Elba Munoz, of Miami, and four grand nieces and nephews.
Prudence Addison Babcock, Society Figure and Prison Reform
Advocate, Dies at 63/ Jailed for Three Years in ‘Lover’s
Triangle’ Murder of her husband.
(N.Y. World-Journal-Tribune, March 11, 1967) π