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...near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he had once been charged with lucrative arson by a fire insurance company. Last week a onetime boarder in the Dworecki home, 21-year-old Peter Schewchuk, confessed that at Pastor Dworecki's behest he killed Wanda while her parent was out preaching, got 50? for the job from Father Dworecki. Along with Peter Schewchuk, he pleaded guilty. The judge changed their plea to "not guilty...
...cheeked, rotund Joseph C. Lincoln's 30-odd novels all have their quotas of clambakes, oilskins and "characters." "The average summer boarder," says dry-spoken Innkeeper Seth Hammond Ownley, "is forever hunting 'characters' and forgetting to look in the looking glass for a specimen." Novelist Lincoln, now 69, comes of a seafaring Cape family, was once a commercial artist. To make his drawings sell better, he wrote verses and jokes to go with them. Soon the verses outsold the pictures. Cap'n Eri, his first novel, was a bestseller in 1904; he has been publishing bestsellers...
Irwin Away. For the murder of beauteous, pictureworthy Veronica Gedeon and of her mother and a male boarder in their Manhattan apartment (TIME, April 12, 1937), syphilitic, tuberculous Robert Irwin was sentenced to 139 years in prison. Taken from Manhattan to a padded cell at Sing Sing, where he turned over $500 to prison guards, Sculptor Irwin said famed Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz had given him the money for pleading guilty to three second-degree murders. Lawyer Leibowitz is proud that he has "never lost a client to the electric chair...
...worst wreck was the smashup of his first marriage which came when he had three children. A hard drinker, suspicious, temperamental, French became jealous of a young boarder, accused his wife of infidelity, made the boarder dance at the point of a gun. After the divorce Harry French went through a kind of proletarian purgatory: jobs slipped through his fingers, money went for liquor, strikes got him in trouble, his daughters by his second wife died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights...
Rusty Greenhood's 103.09 point performance last night when he lost to Navy's Gibson, makes him a slight underdog to Harry Cranston, undefeated Tiger spring-boarder...