Word: hebner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred K. Hebner, 52, engineer, guided a General Motors subsidiary to a $10,000,000 business, became assistant to General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan, helped develop the corporation's present budget system, which "made 70 General Motors millionaires in six years." He left General Motors in 1927. Since 1934 he has worked at WPA administration jobs, more recently tried unsuccessfully to sell annuities...
Died, Cora T. Hebner, 55, famed polyandrist (five husbands), wife of Polygamist Will Hebner (19 wives); by her own hand (poison); in a Pocahontas, Ark., jail where she was being held for the murder of a man (presumably Will Hebner) whose skeleton neighbors discovered in her cellar (TIME, April 18). She left a note saying: "I did not kill Will Hebner. He brought me the poison with which I killed myself. . . . I'll rob you of any further fun and cheat the natives out of a Roman holiday...
...first place, said Mrs. Hebner, the corpse in her cellar was not her husband's. In the second place, she had five husbands, among whom Will Hebner was distinguished chiefly for having married her first-in Clinton, Ill. in 1897, using the name of Samuel Sullivan. Asked where she had acquired her taste for polygamy, Mrs. Hebner readily obliged. Will Hebner had deserted her shortly after their wedding, remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while...
...this point the jury remembered to ask Mrs. Hebner whose, if not her husband's, was the corpse in her cellar. To this Mrs. Hebner had no answer, but she gave the jury interesting ground for speculation by relating how one day, when she had found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment...
Faced with the liveliest mystery in Arkansas criminal records, police were last week looking for Will Hebner, dead or alive, and for his brothers, to see if they could identify the corpse in the Hebner cellar. Informed by the Deputy Prosecutor that her Miami friend, Grover, had hoped to marry her, grey-haired, 55-year-old Mrs. Hebner, indicted last week for Hebner's murder, betrayed maidenly confusion. Said she: "Well, I didn't know that. It certainly was nice...