Word: kolesiak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted" by the janitor...
Like Murderer Robert Irwin, who telephoned the Herex last year to confess the killing of Manhattan Model Veronica Gedeon, Suspects Kolesiak and Guerrieri got no chance to talk to anyone, even Chicago police, until their statements had been liberally smeared over the newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued...
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