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The famed Front Page Chicago press came to life, chased its tail and bayed bulletins. It intimidated the police, tried the case on Page One, manufactured a confession and imported Murder Novelist Craig Rice from California to worry over the accused. Readers jumped aboard with letters full of theories, shudders...
Bill was the star. A smart, hard-working sophomore at the University of Chicago (where Leopold and Loeb were unusually bright scholastic lights), he was charged with 24 burglaries, four assaults with intent to murder, and one assault and robbery. He was also suspected of having shot and stabbed to...
As a group the big ranchers didn't like to have homesteaders messing up their range. They called them cattle rustlers, and sometimes they were. A wholesale attempt to scare them away by vigilante methods had developed into what the history books call the Johnson County War. Tom Horn...
Philip's saintliness lay in his utter simplicity (he consistently refused papal offers of a cardinalate), his overwhelming love which inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to...
True Confession. In Bristol, England, the Midland Bank got a chewed-up letter, on its envelope a faintly apologetic note from the postoffice: "Eaten by snails in the letter box."