Word: pitzman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift from God." A habeas corpus proceeding was begun in the St. Louis Court of Appeals to recover the baby from Mrs. Muench. After long hearings the baby was restored to the Pennsylvania girl (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Newshawks continued to dig until they got socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman to confess what had long been suspected: that he had been plump Mrs. Muench's lover, had given her some $16,000 for her kidnapping defense when she persuaded him that the child was theirs...
Then Federal prosecutors took action. Charging use of the mails to bilk wealthy Dr. Pitzman, they brought Mrs. Muench, her husband, Lawyer Wilfred Jones and a woman friend named Mrs. Helen Berroyer to trial. Convicted, tear-choked Mrs. Muench last week stood up before stern-faced Judge George H. Moore in St. Louis' U. S. District Court and brought her hoax story to a dramatic end. Sobbed...
...took a baby, one that I thought no one else in the world wanted but me. I did tell Dr. Pitzman he was the father but there never was a conspiracy to de fraud him of any of his property or any of his money. His purse was always open to me, as he has testified. I did it out of love, to hold him. I don't want innocent people to suffer. My husband did not know the facts until last Monday night. There never has been the slightest thought or slightest idea to violate...
...acquitted last autumn of having helped kidnap Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly in St. Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman suddenly confessed what...
...Marsh Pitzman, an old friend of Mrs. Muench, had certified that she had given birth. On the stand, however, he told a different story. The first time he had seen the child, he said, was when it was lying on a bed in the Muench home. He recalled that red-headed Mrs. Muench had been at pains to point out to him that the baby had red hair. Dr. Pitzman took the child to a window, found its hair was not red. Suspicion finally dawned, Dr. Pitzman said, when no one, not even Dr. Muench, stepped forward to say that...