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July 23, 1927

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WOLF KILLS BOY AFTER FLEEING ZOO; Drags Lad From House, Tossing Him About, After Maid Once Rescued Him. WOMAN STUNS IT WITH GUN Father, Owner of Menagerie in Jersey, Shoots It -- Thought Animal Tame. WOLF KILLS BOY, 2, AFTER FLEEING ZOO

By Special to The New York Times

Boy killed by wolf escaped from Twin Brook Zoo

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GOV. FULLER VISITS SACCO AND VANZETTI; He Has Surprise Conferences With Them and Madeiros in Prison Office. VANZETTI EMERGES GLOOMY Confident Air With Which He Went to Interview, Carrying Notes, Is Gone at End.

By Special to The New York Times

BOSTON, July 22. -- Governor Fuller paid a surprise visit today to Charlestown State Prison and had conferences there with Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose fate in the death sentence for murder rests in his hands.

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Harsh Chicago Traffic Judge Gets 'Ticket' for Speeding

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Summers, A W, traffic judge, summoned on speeding charge

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Notable Births

1927Gérard Brach, French director and screenwriter (died 2006)^[†]

Gérard Brach was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud. He directed two movies: La Maison and Le Bateau sur l'herbe.

Notable Deaths

1927Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (born 1864)^[†]

Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army, but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India.

Historical Events

1927The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.^[†]

All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani, is India's state-owned public radio broadcaster. Founded in 1936, it operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and is one of the two divisions of Prasar Bharati. Headquartered at the Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi, it houses the Drama Section, FM Section, and National Service. It also serves as the home of the Indian television station Doordarshan Kendra.