Word: marcinkiewiczes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yards. Two neighborhood boys were picked up and accused of the crime. Vera Walush at first could not identify them, but after subsequent interviews with police, decided that she was sure they were the gunmen. They were Joe Majczek, who had a minor police record, and Teddy Marcinkiewicz. Convicted of murder, they were sentenced to 99 years in prison...
...Reporter James McGuire got wind of the story, dug out the record and proved to a pardon board's satisfaction that Joe was innocent (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945 et seq.). Joe went free, and his case was made into the movie Call Northside 777. But what of Teddy Marcinkiewicz...
...Good That Way. For nine weeks Chief Justice Thomas Lynch of Cook County Criminal Court went back over the record. Last week Judge Lynch finished reading his summary and made his decision: Marcinkiewicz should also go free. Shaking his finger, the judge warned: "You know what 99 years is, don't you? Well, now stay out of trouble...
With no apology from the state of Illinois for having kept him in prison, Teddy went home with his stepmother and four sisters and sundry other relatives to the Marcinkiewicz house back of the stockyards. To celebrate, the Marcinkiewiczes had a bottle of whisky with ginger-ale and strawberry soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...