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Wept elderly, respectable Mr. Carr: "She has been a queen to me. . . . No woman who has shown so much goodness and loyalty could do what they...
According to the prosecutor's office, she had taken some $100,000 from neighbors and acquaintances by persuading them that she needed temporary loans to develop sure-thing properties, so lush with oil that the fruit on plum trees turned yellow. Among contributors to Mrs. Carr's favorite charity: a beautician, a druggist, a jeweler. She had never filed any income-tax returns, she said, because "I never gave it a thought...
...Carr decided this week to throw herself on the mercy of the court, instead of standing trial. Said she: "I don't want . . . those women at the church ... to come . . . and look down their noses...
...Carr had faced her accusers calmly, had parried questions in a hurt, gentle voice-until she was told that one victim of her alleged flimflamming had informed on her. Then came the giveaway. From her lips exploded strange, unladylike, un-churchly words of the underworld: "Oh, a canary...
...week's end a gruesome note was added to the Carr case, when the body of 67-year-old Anthony Ambrose, onetime gardener at the Carrs', was found floating in the nearby Passaic River...