Word: hoffner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's World-Telegram and Sun, Edward J. Mowery, 46, is known as a "singleminded" reporter who never lets go of a story once he gets hold of it. Six years ago Mowery got hold of the case of Louis Hoffner, a dime-store clerk sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a New York City tavern owner in a holdup. Mowery heard about the case as the result of another good piece of reporting; he had just dug up evidence to help free Bertram M. Campbell, a Wall Street customer's man convicted of forgery...
...Only Hoffner's letter caught his interest: he not only insisted that he was innocent, but added that a patrolman and a former assistant district attorney believed him. When Mowery heard what the cop and prosecutor had found after five years of hunting for facts, he, too, became convinced that Hoffner's conviction was a miscarriage of justice, and he set to work to prove...