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...prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which...
...Murderess Ruth Snyder*dying in Sing Sing's electric chair, in 1928, had such a death-house hullabaloo stirred the U.S. press. Chicago's lusty, raucous Herald-American had started it by running a Page One "exclusive photograph" of the electrocution of "Mad Dog Killer" James Morelli, 22, who had killed four men in what crime-loving Hearst newspapers called "the worst Chicago mass killing since the St. Valentine's Day massacre...
...City Room gossip was that Photographer Joe Migon had sneaked a tiny camera in his shoe past the machine.) Fordney charged that the man had been painted in the chair and pointed out "discrepancies" between the actual execution and the picture. Where there had been a dark electrode on Morelli's right leg, the heavily retouched Herald-American picture showed none. The cable, and other chair fixtures, said Fordney, were out of proportion to their actual size. To illustrate his points, Fordney dressed an aide in death-house garb, seated him in the chair and had his picture taken...
Exeter: lt, Smith; lt, Callahan; lg, Morelli; c, Gormerly; rg, Cousins; rt, Ranney; re, Alexander; qb, Carbonneau; lhb, Harwood, rhb, Leonard; fb, Beaulieu...
Recently, Parker Morelli Motor Co., Packard agents in Helena, decided to expand. Next door was the late Mr. Mitchell's display room. Leasing this property, Parker Morelli also acquired no less than 14 old Mitchells (no relation to Dealer Mitchell). Some had never been used; they originally cost from $3,400 to $4,800 and when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster...