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...slow day in court, in Metro Region An envelope stuffed with 10 hundred-dollar bills--which James F. O'Leary, general manager of the MBTA, counted out one by one at the witness stand--and a little black case, a calculator case, containing syringes tainted with insulin--which von Bulow's stepson found in the accused's locked closet--became tangible symbols the masses could feel Frank J. Walters Jr., the 35-year-old assistant who was indicted last year with Locke but who later testified against his boss in order to keep a newly adopted child; and Maria Schrallhammer...
Claus von Bulow was born in 1927. The native Dane rose early in international social circles, joining the European high society during his school days in England. He rose in the oil business and at one point worked for American petroleum billionaire John Paul Getty. In the late 1960s, he married the ultra rich Martha "Sunny" Crawford von Auersperg, a Pittsburgh utility heiress, and they lived well, if not happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections...
...newsstand each morning, breathing a sigh of relief when it was the other's turn.) The two have suffered the trauma of seeing close relationships dissolve. A chief official and a young assistant of the MBTA, "close friends" of Locke, took the stand for the prosecution. Von Bulow's maid, his two step-children and his lover--the woman for whom he risked it all--gave testimony for the state...
...ring true. If anything, Locke's case should call attention to a disease currently pervading the current administration. Recurrent charges against aides to Gov. Edward J. King, and King's continued insistence on ignoring a major corruption report, suggest that Bery Locke was just an unlucky scapegoat. And von Bulow's trial was sensational in part because only rarely is a criminal of his economic and social stature actually brought to trial...
Meanwhile, Claus von Bulow, the glamorous socialite and financier, the stoic foreigner who stole from the rich and who attempted to murder for love, has become somewhat of a cult hero. Crowds, swelling outside the Newport courthouse as the proceedings dragged on, waited each day for the defendant to appear, cheering him wildly as he smiled and waved before ducking into his car. "Claus" t-shirts and buttons, as well as "Innocent" tote-bags became the rage for the "Free Claus...