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...curious, wakened a pimply youth of 18 asleep at the wheel of a large sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor for casting a slur on his girl, bundled him into the trunk...
...girl whom Paul Dwyer accused old Dr. Littlefield of slurring was blonde, pert Barbara Carroll, 17-year-old daughter of a South Paris deputy sheriff. Since Dwyer originally said he consulted the doctor about a venereal disease, this mention of Barbara Carroll was a slur indeed. Dwyer omitted her name from subsequent confessions, gave the murder motive as robbery. To friendly South Parisians, Barbara and her father, a respectable World War veteran and deacon, were characters almost as touching as Mrs. Jessie Dwyer, a simple nurse who had long struggled to keep her fatherless boy out of debt. But last...
...change which brings Miss Littlefield to Chicago next season is accompanied, according to President Whitney, by a large financial saving to the Chicago company. Incidentally, neither Mr. Whitney nor Manager Paul Longone has ever seen Miss Littlefield or her ballet perform up to this date...
Joseph J. Bodell, Jr. -- Miss Katherine Littlefield, Radcliffe...
Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Caricaturist Louis Hirshman happened to issue a biting caricature of Miss Littlefield. Outraged Ballerina Littlefield marched fuming to Philadelphia's Artists' Union to see the caricature, tore it in half (see cut) and (according to press reports) slapped Caricaturist Hirshman. Later Miss Littlefield denied the slap, called it just a push. "My impulse," she continued, "is never to hit. I incline to the tearing of limb from limb...