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Chicago No. 1. Day of the Thompson conviction in Peoria, Chicago produced for indictment two remarkable women. One was Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 42, plain, heavy-jawed washwoman, a four-time widow. The other was her washwoman friend, Mrs. Evelyn Smith, 46, onetime burlesque dancer, prostitute and wife of a Chinese laundryman. Somehow, between them, they had murdered Mrs. Dunkel's son-in-law, a grocer's clerk named Ervin Lang, who after his wife's death last December was planning to remarry. Mrs. Dunkel promptly confessed that she had offered Mrs. Smith $500 for the job, paid...
Comparatively stodgy was Chicago newspapers' first theory that Mrs. Dunkel had resented her onetime son-in-law's plan to marry so soon after her daughter's death. Better was the one that she had suspected him of killing her daughter. Best of all was the discovery that Mrs. Dunkel had been jealously in love with her son-in-law, might herself have killed her daughter...
...This they did with rapidity on the first ballot. The new moderator is Dr. Hugh Kelso Walker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, a clear thinking moderate, who has never embroiled himself in the Fundamentalist v. Modernist controversy. He beat the Fundamentalist candidate, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, by a vote of 593 to 318. The moderate moderator named a vice moderator to help him in administering the affairs of his church. This was the Rev. Joseph M. Broady of Birmingham...
...cast follows: Baptist Minister, W. D. Dunkel 1G. Mob, Thirty Persons Helen Neely, Miss Maryalice Secoy Dan, G. H. Code '18 Mr. Jordan, Harold Bates Bailey, R. P. Bond 2G. Sorrell, M. T. Herrick 1G. Old Sorrell, E. P. Goodnow '17 Uncle Amos, Stewart Master Rutledge, C. A. Rollins 1G. Lee, H. C. Lodge Jr. '24 Mr. McIntyre, R. S. Aldrich '25 Johnson, R. T. Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss...
...cast follows: Baptist Minister, W. D. Dunkel 1G Mob, Thirty persons Helen Neely, Miss Maryalice Secoy Dan, G. H. Code '18 Mr. Jordan, Harold Bates Balley, R. P. Bond 2G. Sorrell, M. T. Herrick 1G. Old Sorrell, E. P. Goodnow '17 Uncle Amos, Stewart Master Rutledge, C. A. Rollins 1G. Lee, H. C. Lodge Jr. '24 Mr. Mclntyre, R. S. Aldrich '25 Johnson, R. T. Bushnell '19 Hutchings, E. P. Goodnow '17 Gov. Carr, L. M. Pearson 2G. Bull, W. E. Stilwell '25 Doggy, P. F. Holmes '24 Mary Todd, Miss Dorothy Googins Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Angela Morris Annie, Miss...