Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sprague assembled some 100 witnesses, including two convicted triggermen: a house painter named Paul Gilly, 42, and a Cleveland drifter, Claude Vealey, 30. Their fee for the murder was $15,000. Gilly told the jury that he was hired for the job by his father-in-law. Silous Huddleston, who in turn, testified Gilly, was hired by union officials. Gilly was told that an official involved was Boyle. The murder plan was simple: "Kill 'em and leave no witnesses...
...indicted Guardsmen were getting support from others too. At least three Ohio organizations have set up defense funds; one fund alone has already received $10,000. At the Cleveland Trust, the state's largest bank, a special account has been opened for contributions. In an editorial, the Cleveland Plain Dealer urged the state of Ohio to cover the Guardsmen's legal expenses because "these men were sent to Kent State by the state on a police mission . . . higher employees of the state were responsible for their arming and deploying...
Some sympathizers are offering manpower as well. A group of 22 lawyers in the Cleveland area, including four professors at Cleveland State University Law School, have promised free legal aid. Says one of the group, Kevin Sheard: "We're trying to equalize the scale a little bit. They've got the entire U.S. Government on one side, with all its resources, against eight workingmen who were called into service to assist the state...
...Football League to sign Larry Csonka, Jim Kiick and Paul Warfield?" Ed Keating, who is business representative for the three players, was so startled he nearly dropped his fork. Then he decided the question was not entirely frivolous. After all, it had been asked by his associate at the Cleveland firm International Management Inc., a man who had recently been negotiating a TV contract for the W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin and held...
Foil fencer Philippe Bennett and sabre man Gordon Rutledge, kingpins on Harvard's Ivy co-champion fencing team this year, saved their finest performances for the final competition of the season, capturing All-America honors last week at the NCAA Championships at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio...