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There is one unqualified success: David Huddleston's Big Joe, an aging outlaw with the fight knocked out of him, who is spare in action but effulgent in abuse, and directs his thugs like the Joe Mankiewicz who Benton and Newman once worked for (on whom the character is reportedly based). Still, there's a lot of soggy Harvey Schmidt pianoforte and vacant land-scapes and awkward tries at folksiness to go through before he meets his end. By the time he brags about being "the oldest whore on the block," it's become clear that not only Jake...
...prosecutor knew the case was too big to handle, so Sprague was asked to take charge. By that time, the FBI had captured one gunman, Claude Vealey. He led the FBI to four others: Aubran Martin, a baby-faced hoodlum; Paul Gilly, a burglar; his wife Annette, and Silous Huddleston, Annette's father. Vealey had confessed, but his story was not enough to take all of the culprits to trial...
...deal's off. You aren't leveling. We're going to send you to the chair." On the eighth day, she broke, crying, her body suddenly racked with sobs, sweating profusely. "And she made a good confession," Sprague says. After that, it was easy to get Huddleston to confess that he was the conduit for a payoff from union officials. Sprague is still sniffing along the trail that he is sure leads upward into the U.M.W. hierarchy...
...Huddleston's confession exploded the U.M.W.'s claim that it had nothing to do with the killing. Although Boyle's name was not mentioned by Huddleston, Sprague said there was "certain information" that the "research" fund had been set up in a conference between the president and Pass. For Sprague, it was a gratifying development in a case that he is determined to pursue to the upper reaches of the U.M.W. hierarchy. A dogged, methodical assistant district attorney in Philadelphia who has sought a first-degree conviction in 66 murder cases...
...little men first. When he won a first-degree murder conviction against one of the gunmen, he used it as a weapon to frighten others into talking. Faced with the possibility of the electric chair, three of the conspirators confessed, implicating officials higher up the union ladder. It was Huddleston's own daughter, Annette Gilly, a stooped and sad-faced housewife, who fingered him in the killing. In exchange she received a deal for a life sentence instead of death for her role as an accomplice. Huddleston was prompted to confess for the same self-serving reason...