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...defense scored heavily; the prosecution's auditor admitted an error in calculations of the alleged thefts; all but five charges against Fritz Kuhn were dismissed. The jury heard Bund members testify that under the "leader principle" Kuhn could spend the money any way he liked-but not on a woman, said one Bundster, either vacillating or jealous. They heard Tom Dewey, summoned as a defense witness by Kuhn's lawyers, who hoped to show that malicious prejudice brought about their client's indictment. Said Dewey, asked if he hated the Bund: "It is really very difficult...
...mostly they heard of Fritz Kuhn's love letters and Fritz Kuhn's search for sympathy. Pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Patterson Stark Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell, "The Georgia Peach," 32 years old, seven times wed, winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, was one from whom Fritz Kuhn sought sympathy. But next came honey-haired, plump Mrs. Florence Camp, and the climax of Fritz Kuhn's courtroom distress...
...While Fritz Kuhn's heavy features were screwed up in an agony of embarrassment, the impassioned letters were read...
...torrential expressions of Fritz Kuhn's feelings. Wrote the Daily News's owlish reporters: "[The letters] were the masterly efforts of the man of action who-although in the throes of passion-remembers that life is real and life is earnest. In one passage he wrote Florence that he loved her with his whole soul and body and was about to have his teeth fixed...
...reading over, Fritz Kuhn reconsidered his estimate of Mrs. Camp. "I considered Mrs. Camp a very fine lady," said he, "but now I find...