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Prophecy I (1920) was remembered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Charles G. Ross: "The handwriting is there as plain as ever was mene mene tekel up-harsin. . . . The general service pension is coming. It's as certain as death and taxes...
...Post-Dispatch first dug up evidence purporting to prove that Big John Nick, head of the Motion Picture Operators' Union, had taken $16,500 from exhibitors to call off demands by his union for higher wages. With State Representative Edward M. ("Putty Nose") Brady, who was accused of acting as go-between, Big John was indicted...
...last fortnight marble-eyed, pudgy Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe handed down a decision dismissing extortion charges against Putty Nose Brady. (Big John had already been acquitted on one charge, has another hanging over him.) The Post-Dispatch editorialized scornfully: "Those hardy spectators, who gathered in the hope that drama . . . would unfold, saw what fell little short of a burlesque on justice...
Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
Last week the law's majesty cracked down-not on Rat Alley, but on the Post-Dispatch. Sharp, cantankerous Circuit Attorney Franklin Miller (whose prosecution of the case against Putty Nose was called by the Post-Dispatch "one more in his 11-year record of dismal flops") filed an information for contempt of court against the Post-Dispatch, its Editors Reese and Coghlan. its Cartoonist Fitzpatrick. Judge Rowe decided there was cause for action, ordered all three to appear in court this week...