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Jelke's trial had provided a Roman holiday of rare proportions for New York's tabloids. Though newsmen were barred from the court during the two weeks in which the prosecution presented its case, they had little difficulty in digging up daily accounts of glittering vice, café-society style (TIME, Feb. 23). In its final week (after reporters had been admitted to the court), the trial took on the throbbing dramatic tones of a soap opera. Mickey's Social Registered mother, stately Mrs. Ralph Teal, unhappily admitted that a number of her son's sinful...
Meanwhile, as his past unfolded in the press. Refugee Morton-Stewart was blazing a glittering, champagne-splashed trail. In Paris, he enchanted the café set with a series of brilliant parties at a little bistro in the Rue Pierre Charron. But when detectives, spurred on by the travel agency, in Birmingham, arrived to check up on "the gay Englishman." he had disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert...
...Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, which righteously proclaimed on its editorial page that it was proper to "seal off this filthy business from the public view," told its public on Page One the same day: "Call Girl Pat Ward wept at her past today and choked over the names of café society big shots to whom she sold her love...
...kept it up at the D.A.'s office. She bawled steadily and stridently for a full half-hour as she was arraigned as a material witness in the case against Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke, who is charged with being a procurer for well-heeled gents of café society...
...diamond-studded clip. She exuded French perfume and trailed a "breath of spring" mink stole with the air of a duchess dragging a gunny sack. After scarcely more than one startled look, Assistant District Attorney Anthony J. Liebler was moved to describe her as the "golden girl of café society." He grew more eloquent during the arraignment...