Word: lowther
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopefully the reporters put it all down. For days they had been following the dewy-eyed romance of George Lowther 3rd, 30, Yaleman. insurance broker, cafe socialite, and Eileen Herrick, 20, only daughter of stern Walter R. Herrick, onetime Park Commissioner of New York City. George wanted to marry Eileen. The Herricks did not want Eileen to marry George. Eileen could not be reached to find out what she wanted. So, George, claiming that the Herricks were holding Eileen a prisoner against her will, got from Justice Wasservogel a writ of habeas corpus demanding that the father produce the girl...
...reporters wrote of romance, the conflict of generations, elopement. It was Romeo and Juliet, it was Our Town laid in the big city, it was as sentimental as Barrie, it was young love blossoming among the nightclubs. True, Mr. Lowther was getting pretty well along in years to be called, as his lawyer called him, "the kid." True, Eileen and George had been photographed together in nightclubs, and had been seen together for some time, nor was the illusion aided when the Hat Style News Bureau released a picture showing Mr. Lowther modeling one of John-Frederics' new creations...
...Lowther," said Justice Wasservogel. "Don't be so familiar...
Hastily Justice Wasservogel said: "I don't think it will be necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best...
First woman sentenced to death in Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...