Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Cook County Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen, 51, last fall hired Banker Edmund Burke to investigate and correct the "horse-and-buggy" accounting system used in his Chicago office. He had considerable reason: press charges of a kickback "welfare fund" (which Paschen denied collecting) had just forced Paschen from the governor's race (TIME, Sept. 10). Another kick would be likely to finish him politically...
...county grand jury began hearings on the case and U.S. Attorney Robert Tieken checked up on possible income tax evasions, blasé Chicagoans and their newspapers quickly lost interest. In the major leagues of Illinois and Cook County scandal. $444,000 is a minor-league steal. But Treasurer Paschen, firing two suspects with more to go. sighed like a man just missed by lightning: "I'm deeply shocked that such a thing could have gone on in the office. I knew nothing of it, of course...
...words of the title-"They Hanged My Saintly Billy"-were uttered by Dr. Palmer's mother. It was the death of a racing pal, John Parsons Cook, which brought her Billy-saintly or otherwise-to book. The friends' financial transactions were more snarled up than the accounts of a waterfront loan shark, but it seems that Dr. Palmer stood to gain by Cook's death. One night they met in The Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, to toast the victory of a nag called Polestar. The scene, as Graves engraves it, is worthy of Cruikshank. "Will you take another...
...Cook downed his brandy and water, and later complained: "I've been sick as a cat. I do believe that damned Palmer dosed my grog, for a lark." He was dead a week later. Soon there were whispers about the deaths of 13 other people who had been connected with Palmer: patients, drinking companions, relatives, his wife (a possible suicide). The literary-minded might make cracks about "The Charnel House of Palmer." But Graves maintains stoutly that Palmer "never killed nobody," was the victim of prejudice and circumstantial evidence in the Cook case. In other hands this story might...
...Saintly Billy explores in great detail the circumstances surrounding a spectacular criminal career. Mr. Graves has chosen the story of Dr. William Palmer, who was accused of doing in fourteen people, the majority by poison, and who was publicly hanged in 1856 after being convicted of poisoning John Parsons Cook, a fellow aficionado of horse-racing...