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News: "The medical examiner found also that Mr. Pollak had had muscular heart trouble of long standing and some kidney ailments. When the question was put to him squarely . . . he stated it to be his opinion that Joe Pollak had died of a bullet wound in his head, thus ruining the last hope of his sad-eyed widow that he might have died of something else...
Following her surrender to police, and conferences with a lawyer named O'Brien, Mrs. Pollak revealed that her husband had been in the habit of mauling her when she displeased him, that she had shot ("to frighten him'') because he had come after her with a knife. Police at the apartment had discovered no knife. On second investigation of the house a lawyer named Hoffman produced a three-inch paring knife which he said he had found there. Then Mrs. Pollak's platinum-blonde cousin, a Mrs. Victoria Schultz, "eyewitness," supplied a huge carving knife. Lawyer...
...Pollak elected to be tried by the court without jury, first woman murder defendant to avail herself of that new prerogative in Chicago courts. Excerpts from the newspaper reports...
Daily News: "Virtue, triumphant though weary, and womanhood rising strong amid tears to make the ultimate sacrifice of a husband, were tastefully described in court today as Mrs. Pollak began her march toward an acquittal for the shooting of good old Joe Pollak, her onetime spouse. . . . While the State was hinting that she was a murderess and her own counsel was describing her as a wronged woman who had never done harm to anyone save for one slight killing, her pose remained the same. . . . She looked like the lady on the dollar, only more expensive...
Herex: "The cast, though accidentally chosen, was splendid for type. . . . The star, Dorothy Pollak, pretty enough to get by if she knows her lines, and simply but smartly dressed in the funeral finery she wore on the sad occasion when she tried to hurl herself into the late Joe's grave (see earlier installments...