Collections of Madness

July, 1921: O’Bannion crumbles the newspaper tossing it aside, “Kyern, get your crew in here! I sent O’Leary (Hammer) down to Boston to secure a safe-house for us but now I read about him gagged and floating in the ocean. I thought I’d coordinated with Zeke Crater and his mob; as long as we’re not selling. Get down there, check in with our accountant Mr. Keeting about the old house for sale, and confirm Crater had nuttn to do with Hammer’s death. Don’t need a gang war, but if he’s starting, I’ll finish it.”

FROM THE BEGINNING :  https://rigglew4.blogspot.com/2019/01/trans-atlantic-terror-part-1.html DAY 3 late evening : Elizabeth is done with her crying and now determined to get others to listen to her bold accusations, “Look at her slink away from the table. I tell you THAT is not Joanna! The real Mrs. Ostermann was kinder and SHOULD be ten years older! And knew how to dress.” But her words fall on deaf ears as each passenger is wrapped in their own thoughts. Dr. Evvie wracking his brain for those missing minutes of today, Judith now sobbing for all the distractions tainting her coming wedding. Lorelei pinned between to the two emotional women and out of consoling words for either. A new passenger (played by Brian) having joined the table having overheard the soap opera and trying to console the women. Jonah finally returning to the table while detective Fenster (played by Tony) passes up his chair. A pause and quizzical look by the new passenger till the lightbulb shines, “Mr. Frank

DAY 1 : Jonah stood silent at the chain fence as he watched the casket pulled from the hearse and loaded into the bowels of H.M.S. Adriatic anchored in Liverpool, England. It was going to be a long and somber Atlantic cross taking his departed friend Gerald Feinstein home to his mother in Arkham. A joyous summer break from college, spending their last dimes (well, their parents’ last dimes) traipsing across Europe. Jonah intent on furthering his education attending lectures by some of the greatest minds, such as Einstein. Gerald more intent on the breweries and barmaids. Till that fateful Munich rally they chanced upon. Those hooligans clubbing the protesters. Good-ole chivalrous Gerald rushing to aid the poor girl being beaten. The ‘Brownshirt’ club cracking his skull. A life cut short. How would he explain events to Mrs. Feinstein?