Word: marcinkiewiczes
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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...
Police Record. Mayor Anton Cermak, who was trying to get Chicago's mildewed reputation scrubbed up for the 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...
...spent the afternoon of the murder packing coal into his house. As he talked to the detectives, his wife and father-in-law stood anxiously by, corroborating his story. The cops asked him if he had seen Ted Marcinkiewicz. Joe told them Ted, a former schoolmate, had spent the night of Dec. 9 at his house...