Word: fritchey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard Cleveland. Ohio, Press complained to City Editor Norman Shaw that he had been cheated of his savings in a scheme to buy cemetery lots. As a routine investigation, the case came to the attention of Editor Shaw's utilities reporter and crime expert, sharp-eyed young Clayton Fritchey...
Before he had gone far in what his office called the "graveyard story," Investigator Fritchey knew he had some-thing big. He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been...
After interviewing scores of victims, Fritchey carefully backed his facts with affidavits and laid them before the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury, which promptly called for the promoters' books...
Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...
...newshawk who thus scored for his city began his journalistic career with Scripps-Howard nine years ago on the Baltimore Post. By 1934 he was managing editor, and when the Post was sold to William Randolph Hearst, the Cleveland Press soon found room for Clayton Fritchey. Thirty-one, ruddy of face, blue of eye, Reporter Fritchey has recently used his spare time to improve his tennis, write a dramatization of Lion Feuchtwanger's novel The Oppermanns...