Word: marye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At about 1:20 a. m. on the morning of July 26, 1938, Ray Bonta, a reporter on the Dallas News, drove Mary Jo Miller, Illinois physical education teacher, home from a dance, saw her safely in, drove off. Jaunty, dark-haired Mary Jo was staying with her brother, J...
Soon after, a pale, lanky rural school superintendent, E. Ross Wyatt, 36, was jailed, charged under the involved Texas law with "burglary of a private residence at nighttime with intent to commit a felony; to wit, murder." For 16 months beak-faced Principal Wyatt languished in the Dallas jail; once...
Ross Wyatt took the stand, told in detail how Mary Jo had drawn two hearts, arrow-joined, when she applied for a job with him; how he first kissed her, how they became intimate three weeks later, how they took a ten-day trip to Florida at her suggestion, spent...
To the stand went a score of witnesses: Mrs. Lela Wyatt, who divorced the classroom Casanova in 1936 after finding him "more times than she could count" with Mary Jo; Thelma Powell, buxom waitress, once the object of his affections; his sisters and his friends. Seven of them gave him...
Lover, duelist, cowboy, playboy, musketeer on the screen, his private life was as romantic as his public. He traveled everywhere. His second wife was Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford. Even when he was past 50, he leaped fences rather than go through gates, married the divorced wife of a...