Word: muscarella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juror No. 6 was brunette, gap-toothed Mrs. Angeline Muscarella, 29, who had three women deputies watching over her. Deputy Sheriff Alfred Warner also had Mrs. Muscarella in hand. A Buffalo policeman later testified: "He [Warner] said that he had had improper relations with Mrs. Muscarella during the time he was guarding the jury...
Outraged Justice Conway fined Al Warner $500, jailed him for 60 days. Sheriff William Pollack, after much delay, fired Deputy Warner, two of the women assigned to Mrs. Muscarella, and the deputy who did nothing about the "fixer." Unhappily for Sheriff Pollack, public indignation was not appeased. "In the interest of law and order in Erie County," the Buffalo Evening News last week proposed that the New York Legislature let Erie County elect no more sheriffs, perhaps substitute a non-political employe under Civil Service. Buffalo and Erie County have come a long way since 1872. Their sheriff then...
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