Word: majczek
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...World's Fair, clamored for a crime cleanup. But the police turned up little except neighborhood rumor: a man named Ted Marcinkiewicz had threatened to hold up Vera's speakeasy. By Dec. 22, when detectives went to see a thick-lipped, black-haired youth named Joe Majczek, the case seemed to be falling apart...
...Passing Years. His bewildered, Polish-born mother, Mrs. Tillie Majczek set out to save him. She knew criminals always wanted money-if she offered a big reward, maybe one would tell on the killer. She began scrubbing floors in office buildings to raise the money. The years passed, and her savings grew slowly...
...last autumn, after eleven years, Mrs. Majczek was ready. She ran a classified ad in the Chicago Daily Times: $5,OOO REWARD FOR KILLERS OF OFFICER LUNDY ON DEC. 9, 1932. CALL...
Compost Heap. The Times'snewsroom spotted the story. Next day a slim, dark-haired reporter named James McGuire visited Mrs. Majczek, listened as she told her story in broken English. The Times refused her offer of the $5,000, began raking over the forgotten files of the Lundy case, uncovered a legal compost heap...