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Thus last week a dog's death came to Arthur Kasherman, 43, publisher of an unsavory Minneapolis one-man tabloid, the Public Press. He died as he said he would: "Just like they got Guilford and Liggett." In 1934 gunfire from a passing automobile had brought down another Minneapolis publisher, Howard Guilford, who circulated two scandal sheets, the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet; and, a year later, Walter Liggett, publisher of the Midwest American, got his. Liggett, a former editor of Plain Talk (a magazine), and Guilford, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman, once had some legitimacy as journalists. Kasherman...
...acquaintances, who had developed a studied indifference to his talk of crusades, "expo-ZAYS" and threats, the wonder was that anyone had wasted a bullet on Kasherman. He was a man of thin face and slickly pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer, who once did a two-year penitentiary stretch for a $25 shakedown of a whoremistress. His Public Press was a newspaper only by the utmost professional courtesy: it came out intermittently, whenever Kasherman could find someone to smear and someone to pay him for it; it was full of black-inked diatribes...
Police confessed themselves as baffled by Kasherman's murder as by Guilford's and Liggett's, still officially listed as unsolved. Minneapolis' legitimate newspapers cluck-clucked properly over Kasherman's death, hoped that the latest killing would do what police and city officials had failed to do: put a stop to blackmail parading as journalism...
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