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Midwest newspapers last week splashed through such an orgy of Sex and Murder as rarely falls to the lot of a headline-writer. One was in Peoria, Ill.; two were in Chicago; the last was in Cleveland...
...Peoria. The Trial of the Obscene Picture Man was straight Good & Evil. Good was Mildred Hallmark, 19, pretty, self-respecting hostess in a cafeteria who had been found stripped, raped and murdered in a Peoria cemetery ditch last June. During last week's trial Midwest newspapers temporarily promoted her from a cafeteria hostess to a night club hostess, reconsidered, returned her to the cafeteria. Her last night she had seen Public Hero No. 1 with a friend who had left her to go home alone in the rain...
Unconditional Evil was Gerald Thompson, 26, machinist, who noted in his diary some 83 women he had tried to seduce. To Peoria's pride, 67 of his attempts were unsuccessful. He had come along in his car in the rain, given Miss Hallmark a lift, liked her so well he choked her unconscious, hit her on the jaw and threw her into the ditch. The Press at first rated him "handsome, curly-haired, muscular." Then it came out that on his night-prowlings he carried scissors to snip women's underclothes, had made a New Year...
...first stop in Peoria more than 400 retailers boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
...Peoria, Ill., Ernest T. Faulkner sued the man his automobile had run over, for damages for mental shock and nervous disorders...