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Chief administrative officer of the new bank will be Frank R. Denton, who caught the eye of Andrew W. Mellon in 1929, when Denton was the youngest (24) bank examiner in the U.S. He proved himself as chief of the Mellbank Corp., a holding corporation for 18 Mellon-controlled Pennsylvania banks, and later as president of the Mellon Securities Corp...
...credit for buying textiles for the Army so skillfully that rationing of civilian clothing was averted. He got out of the Army shortly after Dick Mellon, 47, who had also served as a colonel and also won a D.S.M. Dick Mellon had some ideas about a new job for Denton and the vast Mellon interests...
...letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told him to stop, get out and buy her some...
Amazing, But . . . Thrice-widowed Louise, once again the defendant at a murder trial, saw the District Attorney slip the Denton trial transcript into evidence against her. She heard him describe the deadly parallel, noted that the jury -eleven women and one man - appeared to find it amazing but not incredible. This time, Louise decided to testify...
...once again Louise Peete was convicted of first-degree murder. This time there was no recommendation for mercy. Last week, on the 25th anniversary of Jake Denton's death, Louise Peete was sentenced to her own in California's gas chamber. Back in jail she smiled sadly, told her adoring friends: "It goes without saying ... I have never killed or even harmed a human being. . . . But truth is elusive...