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...woman in the case, no racetrack gambling, no wild parties. Then the bank's former president, Charles C. Alter, described his own retirement to the examiners. A New Kensington real-estate man (now dead) had approached him four years ago on behalf of two "Ohio businessmen," H. A. McDevitt and J. H. McKeown, and offered $254,000 for 540 shares of the bank's 750 shares of stock. He had accepted, and Schlekat, although only an assistant cashier at the time, had been elected president by the new stockholders...
...Proof. Sheeler vanished into the recesses of City Hall. A week later, he signed a confession: Gunman Howard had shot the policeman and he, Sheeler, had been a witness and accessory to the crime. He was sent to the penitentiary for life by the late Philadelphia Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who neatly disposed of the feebleminded Bilger by getting him transferred to a mental institution from which he conveniently escaped...
...story: he had confessed only after being half-starved and beaten brutally. "Somebody in back of me kept hitting me in the back of the head so that my head would nod forward and somebody else would say, 'Well, he admits that.'" The chaplain went to Judge McDevitt, who wasn't interested. Said the judge: "He confessed." Sheeler stayed in prison. But finally a University of Pennsylvania criminal-law professor named Louis B. Schwartz entered the case. Last week, largely because of his intervention, Sheeler got a new trial. This time the state asked-and instantly...
Clouded Crystal. In Philadelphia, Judge Harry S. McDevitt asked how Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, arrested for fortunetelling, went about it, released her when her lawyer answered: "She doesn't do it very well. If she could, she wouldn't be here...
...innocent maiden aunts (Jean Aikin and Ruth McDevitt) with the corpses in the basement are the most fascinating innovation in the American literature of the past few years. Slaughterers deluxe of the petite bourgeoisie, the nice old ladies are rivaled only by their nephew (Bela Lugosi) whose 11 murders falls one short of their total...