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...Bayard Brunt, 38, star rewriteman on the Philadelphia Bulletin, the tip from the Miami News on the death of a young woman looked like nothing more than a routine news story-at first. All he knew was that a Miami policeman, Earl Oestreicher, had been given emergency leave to go to Philadelphia because of the sudden death there of his wife. Brunt remembered Oestreicher: only two months before, he had eloped with Philadelphia Heiress Doris Jean Silver, 22, daughter of a vice president of Food Fair Stores, Inc. (fifth largest U.S. food chain) and niece of the chain...
...Brunt is too good a newsman to let even a routine tip go by without checking it exhaustively. His hard digging into stories has turned up a handful of beats and earned him the nickname "Bulldog" in the city room. By last week, as a result of Bulldog Brunt's smart reporting and shrewd detective work, the death of Doris Oestreicher was big news on Page One of many a big-city paper, and three people, including Doris Oestreicher's mother, were under arrest for suspected abortion...
...Brunt started out with a phone check to the Silver home. Yes, Doris had died, but at the "home of a friend." That was all he could learn. On a hunch, he phoned the city morgue, found that a "Shirley Silver" had been brought in the night before. Her home address was 1500 Melrose Avenue in suburban Melrose Park, the same as that of Heiress Doris Silver Oestreicher...
...been brought from an apartment in a slum area. Wondered Brunt: What was an heiress doing there...
...Sudden Pain. But the city's Medical Examiner Melville Aston was not so curious as Brunt: he had already agreed to release the body, without an autopsy, thus ending his interest in the case. His lack of interest was due to the fact that the Silvers' family physician had assured him that the girl had suffered from an allergy, and he would get a letter from the allergist setting this forth. To the allergist who had been treating her, the family physician explained that Doris had been "suddenly taken with an acute pain in the chest and within...