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churchmen, merchants, welfare societies and reform groups, have not done much to batter down this figure. On the contrary, the forces of reform received a stiff jolt last week-at the hands of Mrs. Robert Dwyer, wife of a Washington police-court clerk, and her friend Helen O'Brien, a bookkeeper...
Strictly amateur punters. Mrs. Dwyer and Miss O'Brien had gone to the Bowie race track outside Washington, had chipped in $1 apiece to place a bet on the daily double, selecting No. 1 (a long shot named Charles F.) for the first race and No. 9 (a longer shot named James Boy) for the second race-just because they liked the number...
Pretty bad for a Carroll were the proceedings in South Paris court where twelve stern-eyed Mainemen had heard young Paul Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the murder of 63-year-old Dr. James Littlefield, accuse Father Carroll of the crime (TIME, Aug. 15). Father Carroll flatly denied his guilt. Confronted on the stand with the fact that his alibi (serving a summons) covered not the night of the crime but the night before, Francis Carroll stuttered, reddened, said he had mixed his dates...
After more than five hours' deliberation, the jury found Francis Carroll guilty. Penalty (Maine's maximum): life in prison. Unless Governor Barrows pardons him, Paul Dwyer will stay in jail...
Liable to life imprisonment (Maine's maximum murder penalty) if convicted, Defendant Carroll sat calm, tight-lipped in court. His lawyers, presumably hoping to prove that Accuser Dwyer is a pathological liar, planned to call 62 witnesses. Among them: Barbara Carroll...